Blackhawks sign Olivier Rodrigue to one-year contract

The Chicago Blackhawks announced on Saturday that they have signed goalie Olivier Rodrigue to a one-year, two-way contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.

The deal, which will come with a salary cap hit of $775,000 at the NHL level, will add goaltending depth to the organization for the rest of the year.

Rodrigue is a six-foot-one goalie with extensive experience at the AHL level. The 2018 second-round draft pick made his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers last season, posting a 3.10 goals against average and .862 save percentage.

Rodrigue has not played since last year, when he posted an 18-16-8 record with Edmonton’s AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors, to go with his .897 SV% and 3.12 GAA. The year prior, Rodrigue turned in the best season of his professional career, as he pieced together a 19-12-5 record with a .916 SV%.

The organizational need for depth in between the pipes came when Chicago traded Laurent Brossoit to the San Jose Sharks in January. Rockford has primarily been backstopped by Drew Commesso (25 appearances) and Stanislav Berezhnoy (15).

The Blackhawks have gotten an outstanding season at the NHL level from starter Spencer Knight, who the team acquired from the Florida Panthers last season in the deal that sent Seth Jones to Sunrise. Knight owns a .908 SV% this season that has him comfortably above league average.

Chicago started the season off on a hot streak, but the team has faltered down the stretch, falling to 22-26-9 as of the Olympic break, all but ending the upstart squad’s hopes of obtaining a surprising berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Blackhawks return from the break next week with a four-game road trip that consists of stops in Nashville, Colorado, Utah and Winnipeg before their first game back at United Center against Vancouver on Mar. 6.