Signing Analysis
6"8 College UFA signs with Florida
Cooper Black is signed to a 2 year, $1,900,000 contract with a cap hit of $950,000 per season, currently playing for the Florida Panthers. His contract was signed on April 2, 2024, and expires at the end of the 2025-26 season, when Black will be 25 years old.
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2024-25
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2025-26
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2026 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Cap Hit | $950,000$950K | $950,000$950K | RFAage 25 |
| AAV | $950,000$950K | $950,000$950K | |
| Base | $855,000$855K | $855,000$855K | |
| Performance Bonuses | - | - | |
| Signing Bonuses | $95,000$95K | $95,000$95K | |
| Total Salary | $950,000$950K | $950,000$950K | |
| Minors Salary |
$80,000$80K
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$80,000$80K
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| Clauses | |||
| Year Type | RFA | RFA | |
| UFA Year | |||
| Buy Out | Buy Out |
Cooper Black, a 22 year-old 6-foot-8 goaltender who just finished his second season with Dartmouth College, has inked a two-year entry-Level contract with the Florida Panthers that begins in the 2024-2025 season. Mike McMahon, publisher of the College Hockey Insider newsletter, had a report of the signing first. Black is slated to make $855,000 in the NHL, $80,000 in the minors, along with a $95,000 signing bonus which is the max salary and signing bonus, per PuckPedia, who had the contract details first.
Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Black was a star in his lone season in the BCHL with the Nanaimo Clippers, where he earned the best save percentage in the league with a .924 SV%. In his two seasons at Dartmouth, Black had a 2.82 GAA and .904 SV% as well as five shutouts in 60 career games. Black made the NCAA (ECAC) All-Rookie Team during the 2022-2023 season in which he had three shutouts in 30 games.
Black had attended Panthers development camp last summer and will now head to Charlotte to join Florida’s AHL team on a PTO. With Spencer Knight already in Charlotte, Black will have the opportunity to learn from one of the game's most exciting young goaltenders.
