{"id":140592,"date":"2025-09-13T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:46:06","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-spencer-knight-agree-to-three-year-17-49-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140592\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks, Spencer Knight agree to three-year, $17.49 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> and goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/spencer-knight\/8481519\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/spencer-knight\/8481519\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Knight<\/a> have agreed to a three-year, $17.49 million extension with an annual cap hit of $5.83 million, according to TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blackhawks acquired Knight before last year\u2019s trade deadline, along with a 2026 first-round pick from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in exchange for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/seth-jones\/8477495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/seth-jones\/8477495\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Jones<\/a> and a 2026 fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 15 games with Chicago last season, the 24-year-old Knight registered a .896 save percentage and 3.18 goals against average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-3 netminder is entering the final season of a $13.5 million deal with a cap hit of $4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 95 career games, the Darien, Conn. native has a .904 save percentage and a 2.83 goals against average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks and goaltender Spencer Knight have agreed to a three-year, $17.49 million extension with an annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,95979,575,95980,85],"class_list":["post-140592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-blackhawks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-16","tag-nhl","tag-spencer-knight-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481519","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}