{"id":486904,"date":"2026-03-05T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:28:30","slug":"sharks-sign-kiefer-sherwood-to-five-year-28-75m-contract-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486904\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign Kiefer Sherwood to five-year, $28.75M contract \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiefer Sherwood isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks signed Sherwood to a five-year, $28.75 million ($5.75M AAV) contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/news\/sharks-sign-forward-kiefer-sherwood-to-a-five-year-contract-extension\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/news\/sharks-sign-forward-kiefer-sherwood-to-a-five-year-contract-extension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the team announced<\/a> after Frank Seravalli first reported the news. <\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, 30, was a pending unrestricted free agent, acquired by Sharks general manager Mike Grier on Jan. 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/kiefer-sherwood-trade-canucks\/1908675\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/kiefer-sherwood-trade-canucks\/1908675\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> for San Jose\u2019s 2026 and 2027 second-round picks, and minor league defenseman Cole Clayton. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, the 6-foot winger had 17 goals through 44 games, on pace for a career 30-goal campaign, and was second in the NHL with 210 hits. Sherwood\u2019s previous goal-scoring high was 19 from 2024-25.<\/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":"Kiefer Sherwood isn\u2019t going anywhere. The Sharks signed Sherwood to a five-year, $28.75 million ($5.75M AAV) contract, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,6386,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-486904","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-kiefer-sherwood","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\/116176571902899991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486904","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=486904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}