{"id":490541,"date":"2026-03-07T04:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:54:24","slug":"sharks-trade-liljegren-to-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490541\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Trade Liljegren To Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have traded defenseman Timothy Liljegren to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/washington-capitals\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"69\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a>, according to NHL Insider Chris Johnston. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Capitals are acquiring Timothy Liljegren<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2029996555646730412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liljegren, 26, is in the final year of his contract, which carries a $3 million AAV. Including Liljegren, the Sharks have four pending UFA defensemen. Multiple reports say the Sharks have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefourthperiod.com\/pagnotta\/sharks-looking-to-augment-blueline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">listening to offers<\/a> for all of these players, and now Liljegren is the first to be moved.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Sharks GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/mike-grier\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier<\/a> acquired Liljegren from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> in October of 2024. The Sharks send Matt Benning, the Colorado Avalanche\u2019s 2025 3rd round pick, and a 2026 6th round pick.<\/p>\n<p>In 110 games for the Sharks. Liljegren had seven goals and 21 assists. The former first-round pick hasn\u2019t been able to find a long-term home in the NHL, but has played 307 career games. If he wasn\u2019t traded, the expectation was that Liljegren would be a healthy scratch for a third straight game.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks acquired a 4th-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft in exchange for Liljegren. The pick originally belonged to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2563\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/nhl-trade-deadline\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL Trade Deadline<\/a> is at 12 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have traded defenseman Timothy Liljegren to the Washington Capitals, according to NHL Insider Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,548,168,24660,5897,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-490541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sj-sharks","14":"tag-timothy-liljegren","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-capitals","17":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116186111382391663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490541","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=490541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}