{"id":492641,"date":"2026-07-01T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=492641"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:39:02","slug":"mason-marchment-contract-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/mason-marchment-contract-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Marchment Contract Details Come Through as Sharks Step Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are here with the news of the signing of one of the higher-risk, high-reward free agents available. Today\u2019s <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Marchment<\/a> contract signing is a statement move by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/jacob-trouba-signs-san-jose\/\" target=\"_self\">the San Jose Sharks<\/a>. It is a five-year deal, with an average annual value of $6.75 million. Let\u2019s discuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBXeiVyYLo\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4000px; aspect-ratio: 4000\/2667;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>Credit Image: \u00a9 Dinno Kovic\/Southcreek\/ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/sharks-signing-mason-marchment-to-five-year-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Marchment Contract<\/a> Details Announced<\/h2>\n<p>Heading into free agency, Marchment\u2019s name had been floated around a lot. Teams are always looking to add size and scoring to their middle-six forward group. At 31 years old, Marchment checks a lot of those boxes. From a career standpoint, Marchment could be regarded as a bit of a late bloomer. The undrafted, 6\u20195\u201d forward, and son of former NHLer Bryan Marchment, never made his NHL debut until he was 24 with the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he is up to 370 career NHL games, with 95 goals, 139 assists, for a total of 234 points. So, his rate of productivity has been fairly decent throughout his NHL career, especially considering not really being in a top line role. Also, he has been involved in some deep Stanley Cup Playoff runs from his time with the Dallas Stars. In 59 career playoff games, he has 19 points in just over 15 minutes of average ice time. In terms of the offence he currently brings in his game, he has scored 19 or more goals in each of the past three NHL seasons. If given the right mix of net front time on the power play, and perhaps a regular playmaking linemate, there\u2019s no reason not to expect 20-25 goals, if not more. For many teams, he could be just what the general manager ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/darnell-nurse-trade-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">enter the San Jose Sharks, and you know general manager Mike Grier is eagerly anticipating the start of next season<\/a>. San Jose was a major player on this day, trying to build their team around the likes of <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/celebma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a>, <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithwi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Smith<\/a>, and now add Ivar Stenberg to the list. Today, the Sharks added not one, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/darnell-nurse-trade-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">but two bulking defencemen<\/a> in <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/troubja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Trouba<\/a> and <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurseda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darnell Nurse<\/a>. San Jose will be a problem in the Pacific Division, and it might be sooner, rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are here with the news of the signing of one of the higher-risk, high-reward free agents available. Today\u2019s Mason Marchment contract signing is a statement move by the San Jose Sharks. It is a five-year deal, with an average annual value of $6.75 million. Let\u2019s discuss. Credit Image: \u00a9 Dinno Kovic\/Southcreek\/ZUMAPRESS.com Mason Marchment Contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":466848,"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":[25,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4652,662],"class_list":["post-492641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharks","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-mason-marchment","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492641","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493352,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492641\/revisions\/493352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}