{"id":154985,"date":"2025-09-13T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154985\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:49:08","slug":"east-notes-chinakhov-peeke-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154985\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Chinakhov, Peeke, Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Blue Jackets forward Yegor Chinakhov<\/a> has already returned to Columbus in advance of training camp, Aaron Portzline of The Athletic notes (subscription link<\/a>) that his trade request hasn\u2019t been rescinded.\u00a0 The 24-year-old started strong with 14 points in 21 games but then suffered a back injury that kept him out for several months while undergoing a treatment back in Russia that the team didn\u2019t approve of.\u00a0 Then, upon returning, his ice time was more limited while also being a healthy scratch multiple times, resulting in just one assist in his final nine appearances.\u00a0 Chinakhov has one year left on his bridge contract worth $2.1MM and will be a restricted free agent with arbitration rights next summer.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see a team looking to make a change-of-scenery type of trade showing interest in Chinakhov in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the East:<\/p>\n

Bruins defenseman Andrew Peeke<\/a> played a fairly big role in the second half of last season, logging nearly 21 minutes a night when their back end dealt with some major injuries. While he fared relatively well in those extra minutes, David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reports<\/a> that the team has initiated contract extension talks yet and could wait until later in the season when they have a better sense of where they stand.\u00a0 Peeke was brought in at the 2024 trade deadline from Columbus and has largely been a fourth or fifth defender in Boston.\u00a0 He has one year left on his contract with a $2.75MM cap charge and should be able to get a bump up on that on his next deal.
\nThe Red Wings announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that prospect Carter Bear<\/a> will not take part in their rookie games but is expected to be ready for training camp. Detroit picked the forward 13th overall back in June following a strong season with WHL Everett that saw him score 40 goals and add 42 assists in just 56 games.\u00a0 However, he sustained a torn Achilles tendon in early March and it appears that Detroit isn\u2019t going to chance it with the injury and will hold him out this weekend as a precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Blue Jackets forward Yegor Chinakhov has already returned to Columbus in advance of training camp, Aaron Portzline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11489,1785,94929,392,1786,385,99,21650],"class_list":["post-154985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-andrew-peeke","tag-boston-bruins","tag-carter-bear","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-yegor-chinakhov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154985","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=154985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}