{"id":675323,"date":"2026-09-30T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/675323\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:21:13","slug":"sharks-reassign-mattias-havelid-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/675323\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Reassign Mattias Havelid \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks announced<\/a> today that defenseman Mattias Havelid<\/a> has been reassigned to the club\u2019s AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda.<\/p>\n

Havelid had been dealing with an upper-body injury dating back to<\/a> the very start of the Sharks\u2019 preseason process. The injury cost him the chance to participate not only in the team\u2019s training camp and preseason, but even the club\u2019s rookie showcase.<\/p>\n

The Sharks named Havelid an injured non-roster player as part of their season-opening roster announcement. Now that Havelid appears ready to return to the ice, the Sharks have assigned him to the AHL as they do not have room to fit him into their 23-man roster.<\/p>\n

The AHL is, of course, where Havelid would have almost certainly started the season even if he had been fully healthy. The 22-year-old is a 5\u201911\u201d right-shot defenseman who was selected in the second round, No. 45 overall, at the 2022 draft. After he was drafted, Havelid spent three seasons developing at the professional level in his native Sweden, playing mostly for the SHL\u2019s Link\u00f6ping HC.<\/p>\n

In 2024-25, Havelid got into 19 games for Link\u00f6ping, but managed just one point. In the middle of January 2025, amid declining SHL ice time, Havelid was loaned to Sweden\u2019s second tier, joining Djurg\u00e5rdens IF. He instantly became a top blueliner at that level, and scored 17 points in 32 combined regular season and playoff games as he led Djurg\u00e5rden to a HockeyAllsvenskan title and promotion back to the SHL.<\/p>\n

Last season, Havelid crossed the Atlantic and made his debut in North American professional hockey, skating in 44 games for the Barracuda. In San Jose, Havelid scored five goals and 15 points in 44 games while playing a third-pairing role that included second-unit power play time.<\/p>\n

Since the Barracuda\u2019s No. 1 power play quarterback from last season, Luca Cagnoni<\/a>, appears to have graduated to the NHL level, there is an opening for Havelid to secure a role on the team\u2019s top unit and advance his odds of making the NHL considerably. But he\u2019ll likely have to compete with former college hockey star Eric Pohlkamp<\/a> for that role in what will be Pohlkamp\u2019s rookie professional campaign. The Sharks do have some developmental runway with Havelid, as his ELC won\u2019t expire until the summer of 2028, and Havelid has two seasons of waivers exemption remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks announced today that defenseman Mattias Havelid has been reassigned to the club\u2019s AHL affiliate,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,6592,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":["post-675323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-hockey","tag-mattias-havelid","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117361382773931820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675323","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=675323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}