{"id":618260,"date":"2026-07-09T03:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/618260\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:27:17","slug":"blue-jackets-sergei-ivanov-pens-entry-level-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/618260\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets&#8217; Sergei Ivanov: Pens entry-level deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a wager, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Ivanov signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Columbus on Wednesday, but will spend the 2026-27 season playing in Russia, Aaron Portzline of The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanov&#8217;s contract will technically take him through the 2028-29 season due to the entry-level slide, which essentially means this year doesn&#8217;t count. Selected by the organization in the fifth round of the 2022 NHL Draft, the 22-year-old backstop went 13-11-2 with a .928 save percentage in 29 regular-season outings with SKA St. Petersburg last year. Don&#8217;t be surprised to see him make the jump to North America ahead of the 2027-28 season, and consider stashing him in deeper dynasty formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,276,5,4],"class_list":["post-618260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-blue-jackets","tag-bluejackets","tag-columbus","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-columbusbluejackets","tag-fantasy-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116887895667368025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618260","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=618260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}