The San Jose Sharks have identified a player geared for their rebuild. Today Alexander Wennberg signs a three-year contract extension. Furthermore, the deal carries a $6 million average annual value. Let’s find out how Wennberg and the Sharks have got here.
Sharks Alexander Wennberg Signs Three-Year Contract Extension
For starters, Wennberg was recently named to the Team Sweden that will compete at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. He has proven to be someone who is hard on the puck. Also, he puts up offensive totals and has fallen into favour of the guys selecting the Swedish squad.
Wennberg has played for five teams over 12 NHL campaigns. His best career season came back in 2016-17 as a member of the Columbus Blue Jackets. That year he posted 13 goals, 46 assists, for 59 points in 80 games played. Furthermore, in 56 games in 2020-21, during his one campaign with the Florida Panthers he had his career high of 17 goals. In addition, he was with the Seattle Kraken for parts of three seasons before a trade deadline acquisition by the New York Rangers last spring.
In any sense, Wennberg isn’t flashy. He mixes a bit of skill with reliability, and the Sharks and Sweden recognize his ability to positively impact favourable game outcomes with regularity.
Being with San Jose is an interesting prospect. With the likes of Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, Sam Dickinson, the rebuild is right on track. San Jose was good for a long time, and want to get the organization back to that standard. Wennberg has spent a lot of time centring Tyler Toffoli and another young stud William Eklund. Eklund is a guy with a career high of 58 points (from last year). This year around the halfway mark, Eklund and Toffoli have 10-goals a piece.
In his career thus far, Wennberg has 830 games played, 108 goals, 288 assists, for 396 points. This year in exactly 41 games, he is sitting with seven goals, 19 assists, for 26 points. Therefore, it is no wonder that Wennberg is worth the kind of money that San Jose paid him here.
Alex Wennberg, extended 3x$6M by SJ, is a pure playmaking defensive centre who plays a stable, low-risk shutdown game amid the usual chaos in San Jose. Despises shooting the puck but is very efficient at passing it. They’ve relied on him a lot in big tough defensive deployment. pic.twitter.com/K3hZbEAC7w
— JFresh 🎄 (@JFreshHockey) January 4, 2026
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