{"id":535981,"date":"2026-04-02T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:47:59","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-sign-adam-gajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535981\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks Sign Adam Gajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/boxscorejunkie.com\/team\/nhl\/CHI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> have announced the signing of goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/690368\/adam-gajan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Gajan<\/a>. The 21-year-old was the 35th overall pick in the 2023 NHL Entry Level Draft. His contract kicks in next season and is for two years, carrying a $1,050,000 salary cap hit.<\/p>\n<p>This Past Season<\/p>\n<p>Gajan had a fantastic sophomore season at Minnesota-Duluth after an injury-filled freshman year. In 33 games, he put up a 19-13-1 record. On top of that, he also finished with a 2.22 GAA and a .908 Save Percentage and two shutouts. His collegiate career came to an end with a second-round loss to the University of Michigan. To top off a great year, he was a part of the US College Selects team in the Spengler Cup and was the third goalie for the Slovakia Olympic Hockey Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks have announced the signing of goaltender Adam Gajan. The 21-year-old was the 35th overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-535981","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116333307643727461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535981","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=535981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}