{"id":154493,"date":"2025-09-13T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154493\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:48:06","slug":"knight-signs-3-year-17-5-million-contract-with-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154493\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight signs 3-year, $17.5 million contract with Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/spencer-knight-8481519\" title=\"Spencer Knight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Knight<\/a> signed a three-year, $17.5 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. It has an average annual value of $5.83 million and begins with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old goalie was acquired in a trade with the Florida Panthers on March 1 along with a conditional first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft for defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/seth-jones-8477495\" title=\"Seth Jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Jones<\/a> and a fourth-round pick in the 2026 draft. Knight is entering the final season of a three-year contract he signed with the Panthers on Sept. 27, 2022, and could have become a restricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>Knight was 17-16-3 with a 2.72 goals-against average, .902 save percentage and two shutouts last season in 38 games (26 starts) for the Panthers and Blackhawks, including 5-8-2 with a 3.18 GAA and .896 save percentage in 15 starts with Chicago following the trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After joining the team in March, Spencer quickly cemented himself as a crucial piece of our future,&#8221; Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson said. &#8220;A talented, young goaltender, he brings athleticism, sound positioning and a calm demeanor to his game, and we&#8217;re excited to watch Spencer continue to flourish in Chicago over the next four seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did not play in the NHL in 2023-24 after entering the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program in February 2023, but played 45 games with Charlotte of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Florida with the No. 13 pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, Knight is 49-33-9 with a 2.83 GAA, .904 save percentage and five shutouts in 95 regular-season games (85 starts) and 1-1 in two Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Knight signed a three-year, $17.5 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-154493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}