{"id":569293,"date":"2026-05-07T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/569293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:21:13","slug":"utah-mammoth-sign-borikov-to-three-year-entry-level-contract-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/569293\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mammoth Sign Borikov to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Utah Mammoth have signed forward Yegor Borikov<\/a> to a three\u2011year entry\u2011level contract<\/a>, the team announced today. The deal begins in 2026\u201327, bringing the 2025 fourth\u2011round pick officially into the organization after a strong season overseas.<\/p>\n

Borikov, 20, is coming off his most productive year in the KHL, recording 16 goals and 14 assists for 30 points in 59 games with Dinamo Minsk. All three totals marked new career highs. He also finished among the team\u2019s leaders in several categories, including four game\u2011winning goals and 78 hits, the latter ranking second on the roster. In the Gagarin Cup Playoffs, he added two goals in seven games before joining Metallurg Zhlobin on loan for the Belarusian Extraleague postseason. There, he posted eight points in four games, helping the club capture another league title.<\/p>\n

Across 167 career KHL games, Borikov has produced 63 points (33G\u201330A) with a +24 rating. In the postseason, Borikov has totaled nine goals and 10 points in 18 games, including a standout 2025 postseason in which his seven goals tied Evgeny Kuznetsov<\/a>\u2019s record for the most scored in a single KHL playoff run by a player age 20 or younger.<\/p>\n

Before turning pro, the Zhlobin native developed through the Belarusian junior system, including a 24\u2011point season with Dinamo\u2011Shinnik Bobruysk in the MHL and multiple championship runs with Metallurg Zhlobin.<\/p>\n

Borikov was selected 110th overall in the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Mammoth have signed forward Yegor Borikov to a three\u2011year entry\u2011level contract, the team announced today. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,4,405,51,5290,232,3154,5291,5289,16728],"class_list":["post-569293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-hockey-club","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-transactions","tag-utah","tag-utah-hc","tag-utah-hockey-club","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-utahhc","tag-utahhockeyclub","tag-yegor-borikov"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116534685434590529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569293","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=569293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}