The Blackhawks have locked up another one of their younger players with a new contract, signing goaltender Spencer Knight to a three-year contract extension with an annual cap hit of $5.83 million.
That deal runs through the end of the 2029-30 season and is a modest raise from Knight’s current cap hit of $4.5 million, which was due for expiration at the end of the upcoming 2025-26 season.
The team confirmed the news in a tweet on Saturday morning:
"I AM wearing hockey pads" -Spencer Knight
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) September 13, 2025
THREE MORE YEARS OF SPENCER KNIGHT📰 ➡︎ https://t.co/JB4ZNwaMJy pic.twitter.com/PtPt7o78fL
According to PuckPedia, Knight will have a 15-team no-trade list in the third year of the deal:
The #Blackhawks signed 24 y/o G Spencer Knight to a 3 year $5,833,333 contract extension
— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) September 13, 2025
Yr 1: $7.25M
Yr 2: $5.75
Yr 3: $4.5M
15 Team NTC in yr 3
Rep'd by Neumann and Bazos @EdgeSportsMngmt
1st on signing @FriedgeHNIC @ByScottPowers https://t.co/Ua2szL7Paf
Knight, who turned 24 in April, joined the Blackhawks in March when Florida sent him and a conditional first-round pick to Chicago in exchange for defenseman Seth Jones and a 2026 fourth-round pick. The former No. 13 overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft appeared in 15 games with his new team, posting a 5-8-2 record, .893 save percentage and 3.18 goals-against average. That brief stint brings Knight’s career totals to a 49-33-9 record record across 95 games (85 starts) with a .904 SV% and 2.83 GAA.
He was widely viewed as one of the top young goalie prospects in the NHL since his 2019 selection and debuted at No. 6 on our Blackhawks Top 25 Under 25 rankings earlier this week, another sign of his long-term potential as the franchise’s No. 1 goalie. While Arvid Soderblom inked a two-year contract extension earlier this offseason, Knight’s ceiling has always been viewed as the higher of the two, with the superior term and salary of Knight’s deal reinforcing those viewpoints.
What’ll happen with the Blackhawks goalie room this season will be an interesting storyline to watch come training camp, as veteran goalie Laurent Brossoit should factor into the equation as well after missing all of last season due to injury. A three-goalie rotation seems a little unwieldy, but whatever competition exists seems to be more about the backup position, as Knight seems like the clear-cut favorite to enter the 2025-26 hockey season as the Blackhawks No. 1 goalie, with every opportunity headed his way to prove himself worthy of that role.