{"id":603326,"date":"2026-06-20T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/603326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:30:52","slug":"potential-canadiens-draft-target-nikita-shcherbakov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/603326\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Canadiens Draft Target: Nikita Shcherbakov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blueliner has played for three different teams this season: Tolpar Ufa in the MHL, where he picked up 10 points in 15 games; Toros Neftekamsk in the VHL, where he gathered 10 points in 35 games; and he also made his debut in the KHL. With Salavat Yulaev Ufa, the rearguard featured in seven games, went pointless, and had a minus-three rating.  The jump to the KHL is not easy, and needing a bit of time to adjust is perfectly normal, but he still didn\u2019t look out of place. During that short KHL stint, he played with Canadiens\u2019 prospect Zharovsky. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blueliner has played for three different teams this season: Tolpar Ufa in the MHL, where he picked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4,465,54607],"class_list":["post-603326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-canadiens","tag-hockey","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nikita-shcherbakov"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116784338283843055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603326","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=603326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}