{"id":788769,"date":"2026-07-09T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:10","slug":"blue-jackets-sign-goalie-sergei-ivanov-to-two-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788769\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets sign goalie Sergei Ivanov to two-year, entry level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed goaltender Sergei Ivanov to a two-year, entry level contract through the 2027-28 season, club President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Don Waddell announced today.\u00a0 Ivanov is expected to spend the 2026-27 season in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) before playing in North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to sign Sergei to an entry level contract,\u201d said Waddell.\u00a0 \u201cHe possesses great quickness and agility, along with sound positional play, and has performed exceptionally well as a very young goaltender in the KHL over the past four seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivanov, 22, was selected by the Blue Jackets in the fifth round, 138th overall, at the 2022 NHL Draft.\u00a0 He posted a 34-50-8 record with a 2.65 goals-against average (GAA), .923 save percentage (SV%) and eight shutouts in 108 career appearances with SKA St. Petersburg, HK Sochi and Admiral Vladivostok over four seasons in Russia\u2019s top professional league (KHL) from 2022-26.\u00a0 He has also gone 1-1-0 with a 1.52 GAA and .938 SV% in two career KHL playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Chernushka, Russia, Ivanov posted a 13-11-2 record with a 2.50 GAA, .928 SV% and three shutouts in 29 games with SKA St. Petersburg in 2025-26.\u00a0 He finished sixth-T in the league in save percentage (min. 20 GP) and ranked third-T among netminders 23-years-old and younger in shutouts, fourth in save percentage and sixth in goals-against average (min. 20 GP).<\/p>\n<p>The 6-0, 176-pound netminder compiled a 3.00 GAA and .911 SV% in a KHL career-high 38 games with HK Sochi in 2024-25.\u00a0 He played for three teams during the 2023-24 campaign, including SKA St. Petersburg and Admiral Vladivostok in the KHL.\u00a0 He played for three teams in SKA St. Petersburg\u2019s system in 2022-23, including making his professional debut and posting a 1.12 GAA and .957 SV% in five outings with the KHL club.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanov has registered a 2.81 GAA and .909 SV% in 23 career appearances in Russia\u2019s second professional league (VHL) from 2022-26.\u00a0 He also posted a 2.75 GAA and .921 SV% in 60 contests in the country\u2019s junior league (MHL) from 2020-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/543192\/sergei-ivanov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FULL SERGEI IVANOV STATS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed goaltender Sergei Ivanov to a two-year, entry level contract through the 2027-28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-788769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788769","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=788769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}