It’s late March, and the Blue Jackets are falling out of the playoff picture. After the high of the Stadium Series win, the Jackets lost eight of the past nine games, including a stretch with just one goal in four games. Something needs to change. The coaching staff decides that that something is Yegor Chinakhov.
After missing 39 games due to injury and barely missing that Stadium Series game, Yegor Chinakhov’s first game back was the start of that horrible eight-in-nine stretch, and it took eight games for him to get his first assist. He was scratched for most of the rest of the season.