{"id":17330,"date":"2025-07-20T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chinakhov-requests-trade-blue-jackets-forward-seeks-new-nhl-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:17:00","slug":"chinakhov-requests-trade-blue-jackets-forward-seeks-new-nhl-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/chinakhov-requests-trade-blue-jackets-forward-seeks-new-nhl-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinakhov Requests Trade: Blue Jackets Forward Seeks New NHL Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Yegor Chinakhov Requests a Trade from the Blue Jackets<\/h2>\n\nColumbus Blue Jackets forward Yegor Chinakhov, selected 21st overall in the 2020 NHL draft, has requested a trade.\n\nShumi Babaev, Chinakhov&#8217;s agent, shared a statement from his client via the X platform on Thursday.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I had some misunderstandings with the coach during the season. Now I would like to be traded. I would like to move somewhere else. Will I return to Russia? As long as I can play in the NHL, I will continue to develop here&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Yegor Chinakhov<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nDean Evason was in his first season as coach of the Blue Jackets last season. Columbus had a record of 40-33-9 and finished two points out of a wild card spot.\n\nBabaev also reported that he has spoken with the Blue Jackets&#8217; management about Chinakhov&#8217;s request. In addition, he added: &#8220;I understand that Yegor&#8217;s desire to be traded did not come out of nowhere.&#8221;\n\nThe Russian forward has suffered injuries in his four seasons in the NHL, including missing 40 games last season due to a back injury. In 30 games, he accumulated seven goals and 15 points.\n\nChinakhov has one season left on his contract.\n\nHis best season was 2023-24, where he scored 16 goals and 29 points in 53 games.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yegor Chinakhov Requests a Trade from the Blue Jackets Columbus Blue Jackets forward Yegor Chinakhov, selected 21st overall in the 2020 NHL draft, has requested a trade. Shumi Babaev, Chinakhov&#8217;s agent, shared a statement from his client via the X platform on Thursday. &#8220;I had some misunderstandings with the coach during the season. Now I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4896,454,545,5934],"class_list":{"0":"post-17330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-trade","11":"tag-yegor-chinakhov"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}