Blackhawks lock up Knight with 3-year extension

CHICAGO -- The rebuilding Blackhawks are counting connected Spencer Knight to go their semipermanent starter aft signing the goalie to a three-year, $17.5 cardinal declaration hold Saturday.

The 24-year-old Knight has 1 twelvemonth near connected his existent contract, with the hold securing him done the 2029-30 season. The Blackhawks acquired Knight, on with a first-round pick, successful a commercialized that sent Seth Jones and a draught prime to the Florida Panthers successful March.

Knight was selected by the Panthers successful the archetypal circular of the 2019 draught and spent his archetypal three-plus seasons successful Florida chiefly serving arsenic a backup to Sergei Bobrovsky.

In Chicago, Knight gets the accidental to instrumentality connected a larger relation with a Blackhawks squad coming disconnected 3 consecutive last-place finishes successful the Central Division and with Jeff Blashill entering his archetypal play arsenic coach.

"After joining the squad successful March, Spencer rapidly cemented himself arsenic a important portion of our future," wide manager Kyle Davidson said. "A talented, young goaltender, helium brings athleticism, dependable positioning and a calm demeanor to his game, and we're excited to ticker Spencer proceed to flourish successful Chicago implicit the adjacent 4 seasons."

Arvid Söderblom, who went 10-18-7 past season, returns for a 5th play successful Chicago, portion Petr Mrazek was traded to Detroit pursuing Knight's acquisition.

From Connecticut, Knight went 5-8-2 successful 15 appearances with the Blackhawks and finished the play with a 17-16-3 record. Overall, the 6-foot-3, 191-pound subordinate retired of Boston College has a grounds of 49-33-9 with 5 shutouts.