{"id":463248,"date":"2026-02-19T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463248\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:42:28","slug":"veteran-jeff-skinner-clears-waivers-now-free-to-sign-with-any-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463248\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Jeff Skinner clears waivers; now free to sign with any team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jeff-skinner\/8475784\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jeff-skinner\/8475784\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Skinner<\/a> cleared waivers on Wednesday and is now a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 33-year-old Skinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/sharks-place-skinner-on-unconditional-waivers-to-terminate-deal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/sharks-place-skinner-on-unconditional-waivers-to-terminate-deal\/\">was waived by the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday<\/a> for the purposes of contract termination.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJSharks<\/a> Mike Grier on the release of Jeff Skinner: \u201cWe want to thank Jeff for his contributions to the organization, and wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Miller (@Real_Max_Miller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Real_Max_Miller\/status\/2023850847788990938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to thank Jeff for his contributions to the organization, and wish him all the best,\u201d San Jose general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-grier\/8459640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-grier\/8459640\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier<\/a> said via Sharks Hockey Digest\u2019s Max Miller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had six goals and 13 points in 32 games during with his time with the Sharks this season. He last played for San Jose on Jan. 11, sitting out as a healthy scratch ahead of the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Skinner joined the Sharks on a one-year, $3 million deal in July after playing under the same terms with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He recorded 16 goals and 29 points in 72 games with the Oilers last season. He added one goal and two points in five playoff games during Edmonton\u2019s run to the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted seventh overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in 2010, Skinner has 379 goals and 712 points in 1,110 career games split between the Hurricanes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, Oilers and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is a five-time 30-goal scorer, posting a career-best 40 goals with the Sabres in 2018-19. He last hit the mark in Buffalo in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Skinner won the Calder Trophy during the 2010-11 campaign as rookie of the year after recording 31 goals and 63 points in 82 games as a member of the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran forward Jeff Skinner cleared waivers on Wednesday and is now a free agent. The 33-year-old Skinner was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,55841,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-463248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jeff-skinner-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475784","11":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116096882827861755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463248","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=463248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}