{"id":41327,"date":"2019-02-11T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=41327"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:17:14","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-extend-collin-delia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/02\/11\/chicago-blackhawks-extend-collin-delia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks Extend Collin Delia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>\u00a0have extended goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/deliaco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collin Delia<\/a><\/strong> the team announced Monday. It is a three-year contract worth $3M with an annual average value of $1M. Delia was scheduled to become a restricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheRealDelia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TheRealDelia<\/a> has inked a new deal!<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Collin Delia has signed a 3-year extension with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackhawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Blackhawks<\/a> that runs through the 2021-22 season ($1M\/AAV). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeliaWithIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DeliaWithIt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uWxb2DMwgu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uWxb2DMwgu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBlackhawks\/status\/1094959455521984513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Chicago Blackhawks Extend Collin Delia<\/h1>\n<p>Collin Delia originally\u00a0signed with the Blackhawks as an undrafted free agent in 2017 from\u00a0Merricmack College. He was able to work his way through the organization quickly\u00a0making his team NHL debut last year with Chicago. After Chicago&#8217;s disastrous start, Delia has been part of the team&#8217;s resurgence as of late. Still, the Blackhawks are sitting on the outside of a playoff spot.\u00a0Chicago called up Delia in December when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crawfco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corey Crawford<\/a><\/strong> suffered a concussion. Crawford is not likely to return this season.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his call up, Delia was leading the AHL with a .933 save percentage. Delia also posted a 7-5-4 record with a 2.33 goals against average. His strong play continued into the NHL. In his 12 games with the Blackhawks, Delia has posted a 6-2-3 record with\u00a0a 2.98 goals against average and a .923 save percentage. In his NHL career, Collin Delia has posted a 7-3-3 record with a 3.11 goals against average and a .918 save percentage.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>With Crawford&#8217;s long term health in question and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wardca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Ward<\/a><\/strong> set to become a free agent this offseason, re-signing Delia became a priority for the Blackhawks. Currently, Delia is the only Blackhawks goaltended signed through 2019-20. Crawford&#8217;s contract expires after the 2019-20 season. The NHL expansion draft for Seattle is scheduled for 2021. If Chicago wants to keep Delia in the expansion draft, they need to protect him. The other goalies in Chicago&#8217;s system, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsban01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Forsberg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Kevin Lankinen<\/strong> are set to become restricted free agents at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"SpmXxcXgTi5W5Q3fQNjIHA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1128127592\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'SpmXxcXgTi5W5Q3fQNjIHA',sig:'ibp2BwcVHFD3305rUqb9aFclFgqL-JIS4YMbJnOx040=',w:'594px',h:'496px',items:'1128127592',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks\u00a0have extended goaltender Collin Delia the team announced Monday. It is a three-year contract worth $3M with an annual average value of $1M. Delia was scheduled to become a restricted free agent after this season. #TheRealDelia has inked a new deal! Goaltender Collin Delia has signed a 3-year extension with the #Blackhawks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2024,"featured_media":41328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34],"tags":[246,3156],"class_list":["post-41327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackhawks","category-news","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-collin-delia"],"modified_by":"Connor Lapalme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}