Are they back? 0 0 2 2 1 1 2 4 CBJ GOALS: Provorov (PP) (1st, 5:06) Olivier (2nd, 10:50) Jenner (3rd, 1:41) Olivier ENG (3rd, 18:18) Mathieu Olivier scored twice as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Florida Panthers 4-2 on Thursday night at Nationwide Arena.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have plans to ease top defense prospect Denton Mateychuk up to speed at the start of training camp as he recovers from a groin injury.
The Columbus Blue Jackets are paying a bit of a premium for their projected second defensive pairing, to say the least. Assuming head coach Dean Evason keeps Zach Werenski and Dante Fabbro together, the top pairing will carry a combined average annual value (AAV) of $13.71 million.
There is still time for these teams to change their offseason, and one big trade can still impact things, but through the first week, these teams have dropped the ball. So far.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Columbus Blue Jackets started their 2025 NHL Free Agency period by bringing back a couple of pending free agents on the blue line. The Jackets have re-signed Ivan Provorov to a seven-year deal worth $8.5 million per year.
July 1: Columbus has confirmed Provorov’s extension. June 30: The Blue Jackets are keeping defenseman Ivan Provorov away from unrestricted free agency, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
In what has immediately set the market for other top-four defenseman in this free agency period, the Blue Jackets have given their minute-eating defenseman a $1.75M raise.
It’s officially that time of year when the offseason is in full swing. With free agency set to open tomorrow, we’ll be taking a look at certain pending UFAs and determining if they’d be a fit for the Calgary Flames. For our final player in this series, we’re taking a look at Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Ivan Provorov.
With just one week before NHL Free Agency opens, a few notable names have yet to sign extensions with their respective teams. In Central Ohio, the Columbus Blue Jackets have yet to make a deal with defenseman Ivan Provorov.
The Columbus Blue Jackets fell short of making the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season. Now, they have many questions to answer, and one of them involves one of their defenders.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have seen their playoff hopes fall in recent weeks. At one point, the Blue Jackets were in a fantastic position to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Tough news for teams interested in Ivan Provorov: NHL insider Pierre LeBrun has reported that the Columbus Blue Jackets are being standoffish about a trade.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have a big decision to make on if they want to move Ivan Provorov, who is a pending unrestricted free agent. With the idea that
The Columbus Blue Jackets have a lot of key decisions ahead of them. As they continue to build their core of the future, they will be making a ton of personnel decisions.
Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Ivan Provorov appears content to stay put, despite his name circulating on trade bait lists. In his recent column for The Athletic, Pierre LeBrun reports that Provorov is not actively seeking a trade.
Columbus Blue Jackets’ defenseman Ivan Provorov left Friday’s game against the Vancouver Canucks with an upper-body injury, with the team announcing on social media that he would not return.
The Edmonton Oilers have been in the trade market for an upgrade all season, and now they know the cost to acquire one of their top targets, Ivan Provorov of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
It’s that time of year again in the NHL as top trade candidate emerge, and this year should see a lot of talk about Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Ivan Provorov.
It only took a few weeks for the trade chatter to heat up in the NHL, and now one of the top defensemen for the Columbus Blue Jackets is at the center of it.
At the end of the day, given that both players are signed beyond this season to relatively large sums of money, it is unlikely that the Blue Jackets will be able to find a trading partner until the draft or the opening of the free-agent market next summer.