{"id":350960,"date":"2025-12-15T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350960\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:03:07","slug":"blackhawks-place-laurent-brossoit-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350960\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks Place Laurent Brossoit On Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackhawks goaltender\u00a0Laurent Brossoit<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t be sticking on the roster after his conditioning loan to AHL Rockford ended today. He\u2019ll be placed on waivers at 1:00 p.m. Central and will head back to Rockford if he clears tomorrow, head coach Jeff Blashill told reporters (including Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Brossoit was never expected to report to Chicago after returning to practice last month and eventually being sent to Rockford for his first playing action in more than a year. He\u2019s been permitted to seek a trade<\/a> to find a new NHL home, but with no takers so far, he\u2019ll end up on the wire to extend his stay in Rockford.<\/p>\n

In all likelihood, the 32-year-old will never play a game for the Blackhawks after signing a two-year, $6.6MM contract in free agency in 2024. There\u2019s no longer a place for him on the roster with Spencer Knight<\/a> and Arvid S\u00f6derblom<\/a> now entrenched as Chicago\u2019s two NHL options. Late-summer surgery on his meniscus spiraled into more knee surgeries that eventually cost him the entire 2024-25 campaign, and a hip procedure this past summer kept him on the injured list to begin this year.<\/p>\n

When Brossoit appeared for Rockford on Dec. 5, it was his first playing action since a relief appearance for the Jets in the 2024 playoffs. The veteran netminder was coming off back-to-back seasons with an exceptional .927 SV% in a backup role before reaching the open market and signing with Chicago.<\/p>\n

While his knee and hip issues ended up taking out a solid chunk of his prime, his stint with Rockford showed he\u2019s still a pro-level netminder and could easily find a home elsewhere if Chicago is willing to retain some of his $3.3MM cap hit. He logged a .900 SV% in three starts for the IceHogs \u2013 even scoring a goalie goal<\/a> \u2013 and recorded a 2-1-0 record with a 3.39 GAA.<\/p>\n

Teams can now have Brossoit for free over the next 24 hours, but they\u2019ll need to take on his full cap hit if they don\u2019t want to pay an acquisition cost. While he counts $3.3MM against the cap, his salary is only $2.3MM this season after Chicago paid out a $1MM signing bonus at the beginning of the season. That could be attractive to cash-conscious teams with cap space to burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackhawks goaltender\u00a0Laurent Brossoit\u00a0won\u2019t be sticking on the roster after his conditioning loan to AHL Rockford ended today. He\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4824,155275,385,99,6182,9818],"class_list":{"0":"post-350960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-laurent-brossoit","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-waivers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350960","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=350960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}