{"id":13094,"date":"2025-07-16T02:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13094\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:16:03","slug":"snapshots-kostin-jets-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13094\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Kostin, Jets, Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unrestricted free agent winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kostikl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Klim Kostin<\/a> has changed agents, signing with Shumi Babaev, the agent announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BabayevShumi\/status\/1944020310019416386\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).\u00a0 The 26-year-old had a sparing role last season in San Jose, recording just one goal and six assists in 35 games with 111 hits but is only two years removed from a 10-goal, 21-point season which could get him a look on a one-year deal somewhere in the coming weeks or a PTO deal at worst.\u00a0 If a guaranteed contract doesn\u2019t materialize, Kostin could be a candidate to return home and play in the KHL; Babaev\u2019s announcement notes that he will be representing the winger when it comes to contract discussions with both leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>The Jets showed interest in winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mangian01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Mangiapane<\/a> in free agency, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/2025\/07\/12\/jets-mailbag-dog-days-of-summer-edition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">relays Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press<\/a>. The 29-year-old wound up signing a two-year, $7.2MM contract with Edmonton with a chance to play in their top six; Wiebe adds that Mangiapane left a bit of money on the table to do so, suggesting that Winnipeg\u2019s offer was for a bit more than $3.6MM per season.\u00a0 Mangiapane is coming off a quiet year that saw him record just 14 goals and 14 assists in 82 games with Washington, his third straight season of a decline in points after a career-best 35-goal, 55-point campaign with Calgary in 2021-22.<br \/>\nThe Blue Jackets\u2019 only move goalie-wise this summer was moving out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=tarasda02,tarasda01&amp;search=Daniil+Tarasov&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniil Tarasov<\/a> who is now the backup in Florida, leaving incumbents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/merzlel01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elvis Merzlikins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greavje01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jet Greaves<\/a> as the presumed tandem. However, Aaron Portzline of The Athletic reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6489375\/2025\/07\/13\/blue-jackets-goaltending-depth\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>) that Columbus is still looking to add a goalie.\u00a0 Their desired target is someone with some AHL experience but who can hold his own in the NHL if need be.\u00a0 Ideally, that would be a younger player but GM Don Waddell acknowledged that teams don\u2019t want to give those ones up in a trade.\u00a0 A waiver claim might wind up being the outcome and while that would mean carrying three goalies, the Blue Jackets are prepared to do so if need be next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrestricted free agent winger Klim Kostin has changed agents, signing with Shumi Babaev, the agent announced (Twitter link).\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[12767,392,12768,385,395,99,4827],"class_list":["post-13094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-andrew-mangiapane","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-klim-kostin","tag-nhl","tag-snapshots","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}