{"id":415055,"date":"2026-01-18T23:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:49:20","slug":"sharks-veteran-defender-placed-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415055\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Veteran Defender Placed On Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2012963838354686106\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Sportsnet&#039;s Elliotte Friedman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>, the San Jose Sharks have placed defenseman Nick Leddy on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Leddy has appeared in 19 games with the Sharks, where he has recorded four assists, 26 blocks, and a minus-9 rating. This is after he had two goals, three assists, five points, and a plus-6 rating in 31 games for the St. Louis Blues during this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks claimed Leddy off waivers this past off-season from the Blues. Now, with the 2025-26 season a little more than halfway done, Leddy is back on the waiver wire, and the rest of the league has the opportunity to claim him if they wish to.<\/p>\n<p>Leddy is in the final season of his contract, where he has a $4 million cap hit.<\/p>\n<p>If Leddy passes through waivers unclaimed, the Sharks will then be able to assign him to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman, the San Jose Sharks have placed defenseman Nick Leddy on waivers. Leddy has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2300,5,4,1999,519,168,5306,5305,1780,84,1692],"class_list":{"0":"post-415055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-elliotte-friedman","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nick-leddy","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-sanjose","15":"tag-sanjosesharks","16":"tag-sharks","17":"tag-st-louis-blues","18":"tag-the-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115918783477737626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415055","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=415055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}