The Columbus Blue Jackets will enter the 2026-27 season with an important change on their roster. A mainstay in their goaltending room has moved on. With Elvis Merzlikins included in the Matthew Knies/Kirill Marchenko trade, the Blue Jackets’ goaltending room consists of Jet Greaves and Cam Talbot.
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Sometimes, when you think you have it all figured out, a curveball comes your way. That's exactly what happened to the Blue Jackets and their goaltending situation, with Elvis Merzlikins having late-offseason shoulder surgery.
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.
It feels like the Blue Jackets have had off and on goalie problems since 2019 when two time Vezina winner Sergei Bobrovsky decided to leave Columbus in free agency for his big payday in Florida.
Last season, the Blue Jackets did not get much meaningful hockey from first year players, outside of Jet Greaves. The young goaltender stole the starting job and looked very good in the role, ultimately earning a nice three-year contract extension over the summer.
I’ll keep repeating the refrain until the day it’s no longer true: NHL goaltender is the ficklest position in professional sports. Look at who closed out the Stanley Cup Final for the Carolina Hurricanes last season.
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Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves is getting set to embark on the biggest season of his young career next month. After helping to fuel the Jackets’
et Greaves and the Columbus Blue Jackets were able to avoid arbitration and agree to terms on a three-year, $15-million contract on July 23, which would pay the goaltender an average annual value of $5 million through the 2028-29 season.
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A little more than a week ago, Jet Greaves and the Columbus Blue Jackets were able to avoid arbitration and agree to terms on a three-year, $15-million contract that would pay the goaltender an average annual value of $5 million through the 2028-29 season.
A lot has happened over the course of the last 5-6 years for Columbus Blue Jackets’ goaltender Jet Greaves. He was one of many players who was directly impacted by Covid in his junior career.
The Columbus Blue Jackets and breakout goaltender Jet Greaves agreed on a three-year extension with an AAV of $5M. The Blue Jackets also agreed to terms with forward Cole Sillinger, also with a three-year extension with an AAV of $4.625M.
With the Blue Jackets having finalized short term contract extensions for both Jet Greaves and Cole Sillinger, with one more to go for Adam Fantilli, I wanted to take a few moments to look ahead at what next summer's salary cap situation may look like for the hockey club.
The Columbus Blue Jackets and Jet Greaves avoided salary arbitration yesterday and agreed on a three-year deal with a $5 million salary cap hit. They’ve got about $19 million in projected salary cap space left with a 21-man roster and two remaining RFAs – Cole Sillinger and Adam Fantilli.
According to Elliotte Friedman, Jet Greaves is signing a 3-year extension worth $5 million AAV. By doing so, he avoids arbitration and stays with Columbus.
The Columbus Blue Jackets re-signed goaltender Jet Greaves to a three-year, $15 million deal Thursday and avoided a salary arbitration hearing. Greaves, 25, filed for arbitration prior to the NHL's July 5 deadline and had been scheduled for a hearing on Thursday in Toronto.
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Jet Greaves and the Columbus Blue Jackets have settled on an extension, first reported by Elliotte Friedman. The Jackets will pay $15MM over the next three seasons at a $5MM cap hit per season to the goaltender.
Elliotte Friedman: The Columbus Blue Jackets have submitted a $2.8 million number for their hearing on Thursday. Jet Greaves has submitted $7.5 million.
The Columbus Blue Jackets and budding star netminder Jet Greaves have a considerable gap to bridge as they work toward a new contract. The two sides are headed for an arbitration hearing on Thursday and the number each side is seeking was revealed Tuesday morning.
Columbus and goaltender Jet Greaves are headed to an arbitration hearing this Thursday after filing well apart on term, according to Elliotte Friedman.
According to Elliotte Friedman, the arbitration filings are in between the Columbus Blue Jackets and goaltender Jet Greaves. Greaves has valued himself at a $7.5MM cap hit, and the Blue Jackets have him at a $2.8MM cap hit.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have found their goaltender of the future, seemingly in the form of a young, budding star, Jet Greaves. Following a season where Greaves was dominant and owned the crease in almost every big game, the Blue Jackets are expected to make the restricted free agent a huge focal point of the future of the roster.
Jet Greaves made 28 saves and Zach Werenski scored the only goal in the Columbus Blue Jackets' 1-0 shutout of the visiting Dallas Stars on Thursday. Columbus has won five of its last six games and improved to 4-1-0 under new head coach Rick Bowness.
Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason confirmed to reporters today that Jet Greaves will open the season as Columbus’ starting netminder, via Aaron Portzline of The Athletic.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have undoubtedly had a solid season, considering everything they have endured. As of this writing (Tuesday night, April 15), the Blue Jackets are 38-33-9 for 85 points.
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