SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks continued their busy offseason Friday by signing veteran forward Jeff Skinner to a one-year, $3 million contract.
Skinner, 33, had 29 points (16 goals, 13 assists) in 72 games with the Edmonton Oilers this past season as he made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in his career. Skinner became a free agent on July 1, just weeks after the Oilers lost the Cup final to the Florida Panthers in six games.
Sharks general manager Mike Grier said last week that he was interested in acquiring a top-nine forward to add to his already revamped group. He might have found one in Skinner, a 15-year NHL veteran who has 699 points in 1,078 career NHL games, with stops in Carolina, Buffalo before he joined the Oilers.
Since July 1, the Sharks have added forwards Skinner, Adam Gaudette, Philipp Kurashev, and Ryan Reaves, defensemen Dmitry Orlov, John Klingberg, and Nick Leddy, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic. Reaves was acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night for defenseman Henry Thrun.
Just in the last two weeks, the Sharks have gone from the third-youngest team in the NHL to the 20th-youngest, with the average age of 28.68 years.
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Originally Published: July 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM PDT
