{"id":112476,"date":"2021-06-21T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=112476"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:50:11","slug":"san-jose-sharks-extend-matt-nieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/06\/21\/san-jose-sharks-extend-matt-nieto\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Extend Matt Nieto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have signed depth forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nietoma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Nieto<\/a> to a contract extension for two more seasons through 2022-23. San Jose has not been particularly active as of late, but this could be the first of several offseason moves. Beat writer Curtis Pashelka reported the extension on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a> announce they have re-signed forward Matt Nieto to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Curtis Pashelka (@CurtisPashelka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisPashelka\/status\/1407073598364274705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sharks and Matt Nieto Agree Extension<\/h2>\n<p>2020-21 was easily the worst season of Nieto&#8217;s career. He skated in just 28 games while contributing five goals and seven points. The raw production wasn&#8217;t down much relative to his career marks, but some of his peripheral stats took a nosedive even from their already-lowly levels. Nieto&#8217;s Corsi For fell for the third straight year to 37.9 percent with a -12.6 relative Corsi. However, it is hard to separate the drop in Nieto&#8217;s impact from the fact that the Sharks were among the league&#8217;s worst teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks originally drafted Nieto in the second round of the 2011 Draft and he debuted in 2013-14. His best stretch as an NHL skater occurred from 2017-18 to 2019-20. That is when the California native posted three consecutive seasons with at least 21 points while skating for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. Overall, Nieto has appeared in 500 regular-season games with 67 goals and 158 points. He also has over 240 hits and blocks.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>This deal doesn&#8217;t do much by itself, but it is one of the few things San Jose can do that doesn&#8217;t cost much money for next year. The roster is still extremely bloated and top-heavy, so retaining players like Nieto is vital just to have something resembling a competitive product on the ice. The good thing is that the bottom-six grinder has a chance to do much more than he did in 2020-21 if he can return to full health. He may not bring a scoring punch, but he has been an energetic, penalty-killing skater for his entire career. This could be a savvy move if the team can fill in some of its other holes over the offseason.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2rFe4J8pTZlGwGiKXgmxWQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1231544494\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2rFe4J8pTZlGwGiKXgmxWQ',sig:'VniJGE90wfzNk63dOpecZOcKxCV9O3rsuGt8q_nQUMU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231544494',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have signed depth forward Matthew Nieto to a contract extension for two more seasons through 2022-23. San Jose has not been particularly active as of late, but this could be the first of several offseason moves. Beat writer Curtis Pashelka reported the extension on Monday afternoon. #SJSharks announce they have re-signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":112489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,25],"tags":[1104],"class_list":["post-112476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-sharks","tag-matt-nieto"],"modified_by":"Luke Flannigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}