{"id":402524,"date":"2026-01-12T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/402524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:04:10","slug":"san-jose-sharks-activate-john-klingberg-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/402524\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Activate John Klingberg \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharksPR\/status\/2010480933250666769\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> today that defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/klingjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Klingberg<\/a> has been activated off of injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Klingberg missed four consecutive games with a lower-body injury. The 33-year-old has been one of the Sharks\u2019 most heavily-used defensemen this season, tied for first among blueliners in ice time with 21:37 per game. When healthy, he\u2019s also quarterbacked the Sharks\u2019 top power play unit, averaging 3:25 power play time on ice per game.<\/p>\n<p>After two consecutive injury-riddled seasons, this year has been a bounce-back year for Klingberg from a production standpoint. He\u2019s scored nine goals and 16 points in 31 games, which is a 24-goal, 42-point 82-game pace.<\/p>\n<p>Klingberg had scored just 42 points in the three seasons following his 47-point 2021-22 campaign, which was his final year in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Although returns in terms of Klingberg\u2019s defensive value have been more mixed, that\u2019s not entirely detached from what was expected of Klingberg even in the best years of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to full health, Klingberg will get the chance to continue to build on his momentum this season with an eye to the summer. His one-year, $4MM contract is set to expire this summer, making him a pending unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks announced today that defenseman John Klingberg has been activated off of injured reserve. Klingberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,691,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-402524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-john-klingberg","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sanjose","14":"tag-sanjosesharks","15":"tag-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115879206194488626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}