{"id":17310,"date":"2025-07-23T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17310\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:12:07","slug":"metropolitan-notes-mantha-chinakhov-martone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17310\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Notes: Mantha, Chinakhov, Martone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Penguins are known to be selling, they did make an intriguing addition in free agency earlier this month as they signed winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/manthan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Mantha<\/a> to a one-year, $2.5MM contract with another $2MM in bonuses tied to games played.\u00a0 Speaking with reporters yesterday <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/penguins\/2025\/07\/21\/mantha-injury-update-crosby-dubas\/stories\/202507210035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, the 30-year-old indicated that he has fully recovered from the torn ACL that ended his 2024-25 campaign after just 13 games.\u00a0 Mantha also noted that Pittsburgh showed interest in him last summer but he ultimately signed a one-year, $3.5MM pact with Calgary.\u00a0 With 303 points in 507 career NHL games, Mantha, if healthy, could be an intriguing piece for the Penguins next season, both as a player and a potential trade candidate.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Metropolitan:<\/p>\n<p>For the second straight summer, the Blue Jackets are dealing with a public trade request. While there wasn\u2019t much of a market for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lainepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patrik Laine<\/a> a year ago, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/columbus-blue-jackets\/2025\/07\/19\/yegor-chinakhov-columbus-blue-jackets-nhl-trade\/85283167007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Hedger of the Columbus Dispatch opines<\/a> that this shouldn\u2019t be the case this time around when it comes to winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chinaye01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yegor Chinakhov<\/a>, who made his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/07\/blue-jackets-yegor-chinakhov-requests-trade.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">request<\/a> public last week.\u00a0 With Chinakhov making a much more affordable $2.1MM (compared to Laine\u2019s $8.7MM) and being on the final year of his contract, he should have a decent market, one that should allow Columbus to land an NHL-proven piece coming the other way.<br \/>\nAfter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/07\/flyers-porter-martone-expected-to-commit-to-michigan-state.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">committing<\/a> to play for Michigan State yesterday, Flyers prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/726243\/porter-martone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Porter Martone<\/a> will not be attending training camp in the fall, GM Daniel Briere acknowledged to Kevin Kurz of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6509454\/2025\/07\/22\/flyers-porter-martone-commits-michigan-state\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>). Martone was the sixth overall selection in the draft last month but decided the best thing for his development would be to go to college, a decision he kept Philadelphia informed about along the way.\u00a0 Martone could theoretically still make his NHL debut next season as he\u2019d be a potential candidate to sign once his season with the Spartans comes to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Penguins are known to be selling, they did make an intriguing addition in free agency earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[15050,49,48,755,448,752,753,12364,82,4246],"class_list":{"0":"post-17310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anthony-mantha","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-porter-martone","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yegor-chinakhov"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}