{"id":379797,"date":"2025-12-29T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/379797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:00:11","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-finalizing-trade-of-forward-yegor-chinakhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/379797\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets finalizing trade of forward Yegor Chinakhov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yegor Chinakhov is on the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports the Columbus Blue Jackets are finalizing the trade of the 24-year-old forward.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Blue Jackets are finalizing a trade involving Igor Chinakov. Columbus getting draft picks back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2005726650118594717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LeBrun notes that draft picks are headed back as compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov has three goals and three assists in 29 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had seven goals and 15 points in 30 games with the Blue Jackets last season, a drop-off from finishing with 16 goals and 29 points in 53 games the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov asked to be traded last summer, making his trade request public via a statement released by his agent, Shumi Babaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI had some misunderstandings with the coach [Dean Evason] during the season. Now I would be glad to have a trade. I would like to move to a different location,\u201d Chinakhov said. \u201cWill I return to Russia? As long as I can play in the NHL, I will keep developing here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He remains signed through this season at a cap hit of $2.1 million and is scheduled to hit restricted free agency in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov made his NHL debut with Columbus during the 2021-22 season, posting seven goals and 14 points in 62 games, which remains his career-high for games played in a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has 37 goals and 40 assists in 204 games over five seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Omsk, Chinakhov was originally selected with the 21st overall pick of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More to come.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yegor Chinakhov is on the move. TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports the Columbus Blue Jackets are finalizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[4759,3644,5180,897,230,32986,5179,5,4,40359],"class_list":{"0":"post-379797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-blue-jackets","10":"tag-bluejackets","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-29","14":"tag-columbusbluejackets","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-yegor-chinakhov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482475"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115804636719502632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}