{"id":438338,"date":"2024-07-01T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=438338"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:53:22","slug":"sharks-sign-goalscoring-winger-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/07\/01\/sharks-sign-goalscoring-winger-to-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Sign Goalscoring Winger to Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks announced today that they have signed forward Tyler Toffoli<\/a> to a contract. He split time between the Devils and the Jets during the 2023-24 season. Toffoli, acquired from the Calgary Flames<\/a> last offseason, put together a nice 2023-24 campaign for the Devils. Details are that he will be with the club for four years and will make $6 million per season.<\/p>\n

Tyler Toffoli Signs Contract in San Jose<\/h2>\n

Toffoli has been a reliable top-six scoring winger for the majority of his career. He put up a career-high in goals and assists with Calgary before being traded and followed it up with another productive year. In a bad year for the Devils, Toffoli was a lone bright spot and his goalscoring will be valuable once the team finds their rhythm again. Even when he was part of the Jets, he was a valuable asset to their lineup. Now he can bring those talents to the Sharks, who need a stable veteran presence.<\/p>\n

What Does This Mean<\/h2>\n

This Tyler Toffoli contract makes sense for the Sharks. Even with General Manager Mike Grier trading away key players, the young group needs a stable veteran. Will Smith did sign his entry level contract and Macklin Celebrini is going to be a focal point of this teams offensive attack.<\/p>\n

The Sharks are a young team and enter a rebuild. With adding Toffoli, they are adding a veteran presence, leader, and a reliable goal scorer in the lineup<\/a>. He is no stranger in that regard and brings a huge boost to the lineup. Whether it\u2019s even strength or the power play, this is a great add for the Sharks. Toffoli joins Logan Couture as a veteran leader and can help guide this young team to where they want to get to. Overall, this is a good deal for both sides and Toffoli gets the security he\u2019s been looking for.<\/p>\n

Main Photo: James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks announced today that they have signed forward Tyler Toffoli to a contract. He split time between the Devils and the Jets during the 2023-24 season. Toffoli, acquired from the Calgary Flames last offseason, put together a nice 2023-24 campaign for the Devils. Details are that he will be with the club […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4647,"featured_media":444376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[37,151,38,391],"class_list":["post-438338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-sharks","tag-hockey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-tyler-toffoli"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438338","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\/4647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}