{"id":490944,"date":"2026-03-07T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:07:18","slug":"washington-capitals-acquire-defenceman-timothy-liljegren-from-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490944\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals acquire defenceman Timothy Liljegren from San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> are acquiring defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/timothy-liljegren\/8480043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/timothy-liljegren\/8480043\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Liljegren<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> in exchange for a 2026 fourth-round pick, it was announced Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fourth-rounder originally belonged to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Liljegren, 26, has a goal and 11 points in 43 games with the Sharks this season while averaging 20:08 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-1, right-shot defenceman is on the final season of a two-year, $6 million contract that carries a cap hit of $3 million. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 17th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> in 2017, Liljegren has 21 goals and 93 points in 307 career games split between the Maple Leafs and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kristianstad, Sweden native represented his country at the 2023 World Hockey Championship in a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals are acquiring defenceman Timothy Liljegren from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for a 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,36836,35805],"class_list":{"0":"post-490944","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-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-28","12":"tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116187106066415562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490944","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=490944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}