Columbus Blue Jackets right wing Yegor Chinakhov (lower body) will play against Minnesota on Saturday. There was a question mark hanging over Chinakhov after he was hurt in the previous game and ...
But when he lines up a few feet between Omsk native Yegor Chinakhov and Barnaul’s Kirill Marchenko on the ice on the top line for the Blue Jackets, he might as well be an honorary Russian.