San Jose Sharks sign forward Nathan Todd to two-year contract

The San Jose Sharks have signed forward Nathan Todd to a two-year, two-way contract, the club announced Monday morning.

Todd, 27, collected eight goals and 14 points in 16 games with the American Hockey League’s Springfield Thunderbirds during the 2022–23 regular season.

According to CapFriendly, Todd’s contract with the Sharks carries a $775,000 NHL cap hit for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 seasons. The six-foot-one center will be paid a $200,000 AHL salary with a minimum guaranteed earnings threshold of $225,000.

Todd’s new contract with the Sharks will expire in 2025, at which point he’ll be eligible to become an unrestricted free agent again. He’ll likely spend most of his contract with the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda.

After playing with the Ottawa 67’s and at Carleton University in the OUA, Todd turned professional on a full-time basis in 2017. The Kemptville, Ontario product spent parts of three seasons with the ECHL’s Brampton Beast before making the jump to the AHL in 2020.

Todd established himself as a difference-maker with the AHL’s Manitoba Moose in the pandemic-shortened 2020–21 season, racking up 12 goals and 32 points in 36 games. He joined the Thunderbirds the following year and helped them reach the Calder Cup Final, collecting 11 points in 18 games during the playoffs.

Through 128 career AHL games over parts of five seasons with the Belleville Senators, Manitoba Moose, and Springfield Thunderbirds, Todd has collected 31 goals and 70 points. Todd will now join a San Jose Barracuda team that finished eighth in the Pacific Division — and one spot out of the playoffs — during the 2022–23 season.

The Sharks have been relatively quiet in the 2023 unrestricted free agency period, adding depth forwards Scott Sabourin, Ryan Carpenter, and Givani Smith, as well as defenseman Kyle Burroughs. San Jose also re-signed goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood and forward Fabian Zetterlund to new contracts.