{"id":130125,"date":"2022-07-13T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130125"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T22:17:31","slug":"nico-sturm-signs-new-deal-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/13\/nico-sturm-signs-new-deal-in-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Sturm Signs New Deal in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German-born forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sturmni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nico Sturm<\/a> has a new deal with the San Jose Sharks. Strum signed a two-year deal worth $4 million. The deal carries an average cap hit of $2 million per season and runs through the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nico Sturm, three years x $2M AAV in San Jose <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8EtOrUcHP1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8EtOrUcHP1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1547334596039217154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nico Sturm Gets Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Sturm had nine goals and 11 assists for 20 points in 74 games. He has a CorsiFor of 44.5 and a relative Corsi of -7.6. The Augsburg, Germany native has 20 goals and 19 assists for 39 points in 132 career games.<\/p>\n<p>The former Clarkson University standout has played for the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche over his four-year NHL career. Sturm was signed out of college as an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/01\/minnesota-wild-sign-clarkson-universitys-nico-sturm\/\" target=\"_self\">undrafted free agent<\/a> by the Wild. He <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/15\/tyson-jost-traded-minnesota\/\" target=\"_self\">was part of the trade t<\/a>hat sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jostty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyson Jost<\/a> to Minnesota. The German didn&#8217;t score a goal with Colorado but handed out three assists with the team in 21 games since the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Sturm has the ECAC Best Defensive Forward in 2018 and 2019 for Clarkson. The forward also made the conference&#8217;s All-Rookie team in 2016-17. He&#8217;s also represented his native Germany on the international level and 2015 IIHF World Juniors.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>The 27-year-old has been a solid defensive forward for both the Wild and the Avalanche. He may not score a lot of goals, but Sturm is a solid player to have on the bottom six. Strum plays more like a longtime veteran than a four-year player. He&#8217;s not flashy, but he&#8217;s very effective in his own end of the ice. Sturm is the type of player that can be solid on defence and give the occasional offensive contribution.<\/p>\n<p>It was a risk for Colorado to trade someone established like Jost. However,\u00a0 Sturm proved himself on a contender and going to be a quality depth option. He didn&#8217;t look out of place with veterans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/helmda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Helm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coglian01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Cogliano<\/a> on the fourth line during the post-season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">Das Tor zum 2:2 der Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Avalanche<\/a> geht zwar an Andrew Cogliano, doch Nico Sturm holt seinen ersten Assist in den <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StanleyCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StanleyCup<\/a>-Finals und darf sich zurecht feiern lassen! \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoAvsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoAvsGo<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sturm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sturm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzU1hCUGjO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FzU1hCUGjO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Deutsch (@NHLde) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLde\/status\/1539800447871258624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Additional Depth<\/h3>\n<p>The Sharks added additional depth with defencemen Matthew Benning and Markus Nutivaara. Both are candidates to be bottom-pairing defenders, though also could end up in the press box or AHL depending on how the rest of the off-season goes for the Sharks. Financial terms of the deals have not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German-born forward Nico Sturm has a new deal with the San Jose Sharks. Strum signed a two-year deal worth $4 million. The deal carries an average cap hit of $2 million per season and runs through the 2023-24 season. Nico Sturm, three years x $2M AAV in San Jose https:\/\/t.co\/8EtOrUcHP1 &mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":130128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5781,662,955,3974,1076],"class_list":["post-130125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-sharks","tag-colorado-avalanche-news","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-nico-sturm","tag-tyson-jost"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130125","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}