{"id":131398,"date":"2025-07-19T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/131398\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:29:36","slug":"blackhawks-sign-stanislav-berezhnoy-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/131398\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks Sign Stanislav Berezhnoy To Entry-Level Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blackhawks have signed undrafted goaltender\u00a0Stanislav Berezhnoy<\/a>\u00a0to an entry-level contract, according to a team announcement<\/a>. It\u2019s a two-year deal that carries a $975K cap hit, which PuckPedia<\/a> reports breaks down to an $877.5K NHL salary, $97.5K signing bonus, and $85K minors salary each season. Dylan Griffing of Elite Prospects<\/a> was the first to report the Blackhawks\u2019 interest in Berezhnoy this morning.<\/p>\n

Berezhnoy, a 22-year-old who checks in at 6\u20194\u2033 and 218 lbs, spent most of his time in Russia\u2019s second-tier pro league, the VHL, last season. He split the campaign between Omskie Krylia and SKA-Neva St. Petersburg, posting a .928 SV%, 2.50 GAA, one shutout, and a 12-10-2 record in 27 regular-season appearances. Berezhnoy ended his strong season with a .921 SV% in eight playoff games for SKA-Neva<\/p>\n

The Novokuznetsk native\u2019s lone top-flight KHL appearance came in relief with SKA last year, allowing two goals on nine shots in 16:48 of ice time. It\u2019s the strong juniors and minor-league track record that makes him an intriguing pickup for Chicago\u2019s prospect pool that already includes names like\u00a0Drew Commesso\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Gajan.<\/p>\n

Berezhnoy will make the jump to North America this season and is ticketed for either the AHL\u2019s Rockford IceHogs or the ECHL\u2019s Indy Fuel, depending on how his training camp goes and if there are any injuries in Chicago\u2019s stable of depth netminders. He\u2019ll be a restricted free agent upon expiry in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blackhawks have signed undrafted goaltender\u00a0Stanislav Berezhnoy\u00a0to an entry-level contract, according to a team announcement. It\u2019s a two-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4,22654,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-131398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-stanislav-berezhnoy","15":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114880142607245470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}