{"id":387807,"date":"2026-01-03T03:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/387807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:57:35","slug":"blue-jackets-recall-danton-heinen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/387807\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets Recall Danton Heinen"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Blue Jackets placed winger Miles Wood<\/a> on injured reserve earlier today, they opened up a roster spot.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t waste much time filling it as the team announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve recalled winger Danton Heinen<\/a> from AHL Cleveland.\u00a0 They still have one open slot on their 23-player roster.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old hasn\u2019t been in the organization for very long as he was only acquired<\/a> by Columbus back on Monday as part of the Yegor Chinakhov<\/a> deal.\u00a0 However, his inclusion was more for salary-matching purposes rather than being a specific target as Heinen has gone through waivers unclaimed twice already this season.<\/p>\n

Heinen has split this season between the NHL and AHL, playing in 13 games at each level, including one with Cleveland following the trade.\u00a0 In the minors, he has been dominant, notching six goals and 12 assists in his first taste of minor league action since 2017-18.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in the NHL with Pittsburgh, he has a goal and an assist while averaging 11:40 per night of ice time.<\/p>\n

When Heinen sees any game action with Columbus, it stands to reason that his playing time will be similarly limited.\u00a0 But he does have a strong track record of being productive in a bottom-six role as evidenced by his career numbers of 243 points in 579 games despite an ATOI below the 14-minute mark.\u00a0 Given their growing list of injuries, he should get a chance to add to those numbers before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Blue Jackets placed winger Miles Wood on injured reserve earlier today, they opened up a roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[401,3644,5180,897,230,5179,6627,5,4,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-387807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-blue-jackets","10":"tag-bluejackets","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","13":"tag-columbusbluejackets","14":"tag-danton-heinen","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115829161584567678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387807","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=387807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}