{"id":374510,"date":"2025-12-27T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:23:04","slug":"latest-on-yegor-chinakhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374510\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Yegor Chinakhov"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the NHL has already seen some significant trades in 2025-26, including one involving the Columbus Blue Jackets, 2020 first-round pick Yegor Chinakhov<\/a> has yet to change teams. The 24-year-old requested a trade before this season and has not retracted his request, but no move has materialized to this point.<\/p>\n

The Athletic\u2019s Pierre LeBrun addressed<\/a> Chinakhov\u2019s situation in an article earlier today, speculating that the San Jose Sharks could be a solid fit to acquire the young winger. Within the piece, LeBrun also noted how the Blue Jackets\u2019 recent acquisition of Mason Marchment<\/a> may impact Columbus\u2019 approach to trading Chinakhov.<\/p>\n

LeBrun wrote that \u201cwhen teams called\u201d on Chinakhov earlier this year, he does not believe \u201cColumbus wanted just a draft pick\u201d in exchange for the player. LeBrun added that since the Blue Jackets dealt second and fourth-round picks to the Seattle Kraken to acquire Marchment, \u201cthey might be OK recouping a second-round pick\u201d for Chinakhov.<\/p>\n

Whether a team would be willing to spend a second-round pick to acquire Chinakhov, though, is the key question. Two seasons ago, Chinakhov appeared to be on the verge of an NHL breakout, scoring 16 goals and 29 points in just 53 games. Injuries limited Chinakhov to just 30 games last season and through 29 games this season, Chinakhov has just six points.<\/p>\n

A skilled offensive player, Chinakhov has been unable to earn the trust of head coach Dean Evason, who has at times made him a healthy scratch. The Blue Jackets have yet to fulfill Chinakhov\u2019s trade request, but it appears their recent acquisition of Marchment could be the force that paves the way for the player to get his long-requested change of scenery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the NHL has already seen some significant trades in 2025-26, including one involving the Columbus Blue Jackets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3936,575,85,97076],"class_list":{"0":"post-374510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-yegor-chinakhov"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}