{"id":417231,"date":"2026-01-20T04:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:47:16","slug":"sharks-acquire-forward-kiefer-sherwood-in-trade-with-canucks-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417231\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks acquire forward Kiefer Sherwood in trade with Canucks \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sharks have traded for Kiefer Sherwood.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose acquired Sherwood, 30, for their 2026 and 2027 second-round picks, and defenseman Cole Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top forwards available this Trade Deadline, the 6-foot winger has 17 goals and is second in the NHL with 210 hits. He had 19 goals last season, recording an NHL-record 462 hits, too.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood is a pending unrestricted free agent. <\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is a clear signal change by the Sharks that they\u2019re moving away from the rebuild, and trying to make the playoffs this season.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose currently holds the last wild-card berth in the Western Conference, tied in points, 51, with the Seattle Kraken, Los Angeles Kings, and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sharks have traded for Kiefer Sherwood. San Jose acquired Sherwood, 30, for their 2026 and 2027 second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,6386,8246],"class_list":{"0":"post-417231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","10":"tag-sharks-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115925617558149713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417231","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=417231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}