{"id":19150,"date":"2025-03-29T23:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=19150"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:26:36","slug":"breaking-news-blackhawks-agree-to-contracts-with-prospects-oliver-moore-and-sam-rinzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=19150","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Blackhawks agree to contracts with prospects Oliver Moore and Sam Rinzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.newsday.com%2Fimage-service%2Fversion%2Fc%3AY2M1MzAyMjAtYTM5Yi00%3AZmM3MTBkYzUtNjA0YS00%2Fblackhawks-moves-hockey.jpeg%3Ff%3DLandscape%2B16%253A9%26w%3D770%26q%3D1&amp;w=1920&amp;q=80\" alt=\"FILE- Minnesota forward Oliver Moore (11) skates against Massachusetts in...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Chicago Blackhawks added two of their top prospects on Saturday, agreeing to entry-level contracts with forward Oliver Moore and defenseman Sam Rinzel.<\/p>\n<p>Moore and Rinzel played for the University of Minnesota this season. The Gophers lost to Massachusetts in overtime in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts for Moore and Rinzel run through the 2026-27 season with a $950,000 salary cap hit for each deal. They are expected to play in their first NHL game on Sunday against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Moore and Rinzel are part of a rich development system for Chicago that it hopes can help lead the team out of a painful rebuilding process. The last-place Blackhawks also could add forward Ryan Greene, a second-round pick in 2022, to their roster when Boston University\u2019s season is over.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, 20, was selected by Chicago with the No. 19 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. Rinzel, 20, was a first-round pick in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The speedy Moore had 12 goals and 21 assists in 38 games during his sophomore season with Minnesota. The Mounds View, Minnesota, native finished with 21 goals and 45 assists in 76 games at the school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.newsday.com%2Fimage-service%2Fversion%2Fc%3AZTVhYjJjNzgtZjk5ZS00%3AMmIwZWFkYTItNTdjMC00%2Fblackhawks-moves-hockey.jpeg%3Ff%3DLandscape%2B16%253A9%26w%3D768%26q%3D1&amp;w=1920&amp;q=80\" alt=\"FILE- Minnesota defenseman Sam Rinzel skates against Minnesota during the...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moore also helped the U.S. win consecutive gold medals at the world junior championship. Rinzel played on the 2024 U.S. team that won the junior tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rinzel, another Minnesota native, had 10 goals and 21 assists in 39 games for the Gophers this season. He was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like it would be good to kind of take that next step and kind of live out my dream,\u201d Rinzel said. \u201cTo be able to make that jump and fortunate enough to be here, kind of just test myself a little bit. It was my dream. It&#8217;s every kid&#8217;s dream. So I think when the opportunity comes in front of you it&#8217;s hard to say no.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks have added two of their top prospects, agreeing to entry-level contracts with forward Oliver Moore and defenseman Sam Rinzel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Blackhawks agree to contracts with prospects Oliver Moore and Sam Rinzel - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=19150\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Blackhawks agree to contracts with prospects Oliver Moore and Sam Rinzel - 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