{"id":601064,"date":"2026-06-17T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601064\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:24:13","slug":"sharks-acquire-kesselring-swap-1st-round-picks-with-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601064\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Acquire Kesselring, Swap 1st-Round Picks With Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have added a defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks have acquired defenseman Michael Kesselring from the Buffalo Sabres, also swapping the No. 20 pick in the 2026 Draft with the Sabres for Buffalo\u2019s No. 27 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Kesselring, 26, had a tough season with the Sabres, notching two assists in 34 games. He was a regular healthy scratch.<\/p>\n<p>But the 6-foot-5 right-hander had a breakout campaign with the Utah Mammoth in 2024-25, notching seven goals and 29 points, averaging 17:41 a night. He was also used on the second-unit power play.<\/p>\n<p>Kesselring was traded, along with Josh Doan, to the Sabres for JJ Peterka last summer. Kesselring was expected to take on a regular role in Buffalo, but now, he\u2019ll look to revive his career with the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The RFA should have plenty of opportunity in teal: Right now, the San Jose Sharks have just two defensemen signed, Dmitry Orlov and Sam Dickinson, and now, a pair of RFAs in Kesselring and Shakir Mukhamadullin.<\/p>\n<p>According to Puckpedia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/pickvalue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perri Pick Value Calculator<\/a>, the difference between the No. 20 and 27 selections is roughly a mid-second round pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have added a defenseman. The Sharks have acquired defenseman Michael Kesselring from the Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[28189,229,58,5,1523,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,3613],"class_list":["post-601064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-2026-draft","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-featured","tag-hockey","tag-michael-kesselring","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks","tag-trade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116767559729539569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601064","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=601064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}