{"id":89106,"date":"2020-10-13T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=89106"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:23:40","slug":"san-jose-sharks-sign-matt-nieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/13\/san-jose-sharks-sign-matt-nieto\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Sign Matt Nieto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">Sign Jose Sharks<\/a> have signed <strong><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\">Matt Nieto<\/a><\/strong> for 2020-21. The deal is for one-year and will carry a cap hit of $700K for the Sharks. The team announced the move Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Niets is back! <\/p>\n<p>We have signed Matt Nieto to a one-year contract!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd88:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3jzkuyBKz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/3jzkuyBKz9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAPSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SAPSports<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GyyfnESkSW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GyyfnESkSW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/1316047951794499586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sharks Sign Matt Nieto<\/h2>\n<p>Nieto was an important part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>&#8216;s fourth line in 2019-20. The veteran winger scored eight goals and 21 points in 70 games while averaging 13:30 of ice time. He was a very good possession skater with a 51.4 percent Corsi For despite starting 59.1 percent of the time in the defensive zone. Nieto was also used heavily on the penalty kill. His average of 2:21 on the penalty kill, the leader among Avalanche forwards. He was an enthusiastic and capable defensive forward no matter what Colorado asked him to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks originally selected Nieto in the second round of the 2011 Draft, so the 27-year-old is returning home. He first debuted with San Jose in the 2013-14 season with 10 goals and 24 points in 66 games. The team featured Nieto through 2016-17 before Colorado claimed him off waivers. Overall, the 5&#8217;11&#8221; Californian has a respectable 62 goals and 151 points in 472 games across seven years.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Nieto should be a quality signing for a rebuilding Sharks squad. He will probably take over a spot somewhere on the team&#8217;s bottom-six and feature heavily in defensive situations and with the penalty-killing unit. He may not be a great scorer or especially physical but he is a cheap, effective skater with a lot of energy. His cap hit of just $700 thousand is a tremendous value.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/13\/patrick-marleau-signs-san-jose-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">brought back<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marlepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Marleau<\/a><\/strong> on a minimum deal, showing they are interested in returning some old fan-favourites. The team only has $2.35 million in remaining cap space after the Marleau and Nieto deals. 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The team announced the move Tuesday morning. Niets is back! We have signed Matt Nieto to a one-year contract! \ud83e\udd88: https:\/\/t.co\/3jzkuyBKz9 @SAPSports | #SJSharks pic.twitter.com\/GyyfnESkSW &mdash; San Jose Sharks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":89112,"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":[1104,38,662,117],"class_list":["post-89106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-sharks","tag-matt-nieto","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"modified_by":"Connor Lapalme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106","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=89106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}