{"id":141430,"date":"2025-09-13T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141430\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:55:15","slug":"blackhawks-goalie-spencer-knight-signs-three-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141430\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks goalie Spencer Knight signs three-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"chicago-blackhawks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/chicago-blackhawks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> inked the 24-year-old netminder to a three-year, $17.49 million extension, the club announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is worth $5.83 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>Knight was set to become a restricted free agent at the end of the season as he entered the final year of the deal he signed with the Florida Panthers in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter joining the team in March, Spencer quickly cemented himself as a crucial piece of our future,\u201d general manager Kyle Davidson said in a team statement. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to watch Spencer continue to flourish in Chicago over the next four seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers&#8217; 13th overall pick in 2019 was shipped to Chicago in a package for defenceman Seth Jones at the trade deadline in March.<\/p>\n<p>Knight established a new career high with 38 appearances in 2024-25 and held a 5-8-2 record after joining the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in 95 career games, posting five shoutouts with a 2.83 goals against average and a .904 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks inked the 24-year-old netminder to a three-year, $17.49 million extension, the club announced Saturday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-141430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}