This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Egor Chinakhov
Columbus Blue Jackets Right Wing
15 points in 30 games, a back injury, and a trade request that has been public for a year.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 62 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -27 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 98 | 7.1 | 12:30 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 30 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 9.1 | 13:15 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 53 | 16 | 13 | 29 | -3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 110 | 14.5 | 15:10 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 68 | 10.3 | 15:43 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 175 | 34 | 37 | 71 | -42 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 320 | 10.6 | 13:59 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
7 goals and 8 assists in 30 games for 15 points, minus-6, on 15:43 a night.
51.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 62nd percentile, over 394 minutes. 68 shots in 30 games is a good volume; 10.3 per cent conversion is ordinary.
The Finesse Game
The shot is genuinely good — a quick, heavy release he can get away in stride, and the reason he was a first-round pick.
39 per cent of his attempts came from beyond 40 feet, which is the problem: he shoots from the perimeter and does not go and get anything. 8 assists in 30 games says the playmaking is not a second option.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 203, and he does not play to it. He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and avoids the interior.
4 penalty minutes in 30 games. The back injury has now cost him significant time in two consecutive seasons and is the reason a 24-year-old with real tools has 30 games to be judged on.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, four seasons of stop-start availability, and a publicly requested trade after a disagreement with the coaching staff.
That is a difficult set of facts at 24. The shot is real enough that some club will take the chance; the club that has him has now had four years to make it work and has not.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
39.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 100th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and avoids the interior.”
“He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and avoids the interior.”
“He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and avoids the interior.”
“8 assists in 30 games says the playmaking is not a second option.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 394 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51%
- 63rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 53%
- 83rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 16 for, 16 against. Expected: 17.6 and 16.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 38 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 30 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.57 a game
- Distance
- 2.73 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.3 mph
- 98th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 394 minutes at five-on-five
- Sean Monahan34%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 2.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 394 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Werenski | 57.3% | 46.5% | 53.0% |
| Kirill Marchenko | 61.5% | 44.1% | 51.8% |
| Ivan Provorov | 51.8% | 50.5% | 46.0% |
57.3% together, 46.5% for him apart and 53.0% for Werenski apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
103 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 17% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 39% from beyond forty.