{"id":151264,"date":"2025-09-18T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:14:09","slug":"blackhawks-defenseman-wyatt-kaiser-agrees-to-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151264\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks defenseman Wyatt Kaiser agrees to 2-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4697717\/wyatt-kaiser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Kaiser<\/a> has agreed to a $3.4 million, two-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> that clears the way for the defenseman to practice with the team at the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks announced the deal with the restricted free agent on Wednesday night. The team takes the ice for practice for the first time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Kaiser set career highs with four goals, 93 blocked shots and 54 hits in 57 games last season. He also had four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser was selected by Chicago in the third round of the 2020 draft. He made his NHL debut with the Blackhawks in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota native scored his first career goal on Jan. 5 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyr\/new-york-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a>. He has four goals and 14 assists in 98 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Wyatt Kaiser has agreed to a $3.4 million, two-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks that clears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-151264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151264","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=151264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}