The Chicago Blackhawks today announced that the team has agreed to terms with goaltender Stanislav Berezhnoy on a two-year, entry-level contract that runs through the 2026-27 season ($975,000 salary cap hit).<\/p>\n
Berezhnoy, 22, split time between Omskie Krylia and SKA-Neva St. Petersburg in the Supreme Hockey League (VHL) during the 2024-25 campaign, appearing in 27 regular-season games and posting a 12-10-2 record, a .928 save percentage, a 2.50 goals-against average and one shutout. He also played in eight VHL postseason games, tallying a 4-3-0 record, a .921 save percentage and a 2.66 goals-against average. Additionally, Berezhnoy competed in one Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) game with SKA St. Petersburg during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-4, 218-pound goaltender has appeared in 54 regular-season VHL games from 2022-25, compiling a 17-18-5 record, a .918 save percentage, a 2.77 goals-against average and three shutouts. Berezhnoy has posted a 48-24-4 record, .920 save percentage, a 2.46 goals-against average and 10 shoutouts in 92 career regular-season Junior Hockey League (MHL) games, all with Omskie Yastrby. He has also made three trips to the MHL Playoffs, notching a 15-8-1 record, a .926 save percentage, a 2.42 goals-against average and two shutouts.<\/p>\n
The native of Novokuznetsk, Russia, was originally undrafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks today announced that the team has agreed to terms with goaltender Stanislav Berezhnoy on a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114864881779548418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}