{"id":375956,"date":"2025-12-29T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375956\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:00:06","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-trade-forward-yegor-chinakhov-to-the-pittsburgh-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375956\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets trade forward Yegor Chinakhov to the Pittsburgh Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/yegor-chinakhov\/8482475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/yegor-chinakhov\/8482475\" target=\"_blank\">Yegor Chinakhov<\/a> is on the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> are sending the 24-year-old forward to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LeBrun notes that draft picks are headed back as compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov has three goals and three assists in 29 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had seven goals and 15 points in 30 games with the Blue Jackets last season, a drop-off from finishing with 16 goals and 29 points in 53 games the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov asked to be traded last summer, making his trade request public via a statement released by his agent, Shumi Babaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI had some misunderstandings with the coach [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dean-evason\/8446743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dean-evason\/8446743\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Evason<\/a>] during the season. Now I would be glad to have a trade. I would like to move to a different location,\u201d Chinakhov said. \u201cWill I return to Russia? As long as I can play in the NHL, I will keep developing here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He remains signed through this season at a cap hit of $2.1 million and is scheduled to hit restricted free agency in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chinakhov made his NHL debut with Columbus during the 2021-22 season, posting seven goals and 14 points in 62 games, which remains his career-high for games played in a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has 37 goals and 40 assists in 204 games over five seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Omsk, Chinakhov was originally selected with the 21st overall pick of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yegor Chinakhov is on the move. TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports the Columbus Blue Jackets are sending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,76912,448,82,112021],"class_list":["post-375956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columbus-blue-jackets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-29","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-yegor-chinakhov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482475"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375956","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=375956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}