{"id":442159,"date":"2024-08-21T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=442159"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:45:51","slug":"blue-jackets-retain-forward-with-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/08\/21\/blue-jackets-retain-forward-with-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets Retain Forward With New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Columbus Blue Jackets are retaining one of their own. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sillico01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cole Sillinger<\/a> has a new contract to keep him in the state of Ohio. He is signing a new deal for two years and will have an AAV of $2.25 million. Despite being buried in the basement of the Metropolitan Division, the future is bright.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cole Sillinger, signed 2x$2.3M by CBJ, is a young shoot-first centre who creates mostly off the rush. Production rate wasn&#39;t bad in year three but some pieces still need to be put together. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CBJ<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ewiTXsxwDE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ewiTXsxwDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JFresh (@JFreshHockey) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFreshHockey\/status\/1826263318006546548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sillinger Signs Contract to stay in Columbus <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The future remains bright for the Blue Jackets. They haven\u2019t seen the success they\u2019d like to see, but they have a young stockpile of talent in the fold. This includes Sillinger, who\u2019s been a consistent producer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 2022-23 season was a down year for Sillinger, as he finished with 11 points in 64 games. However, the other two seasons he was the definition of consistency. His rookie season, he went on to score 16 goals and 31 points. This last season, he scored 13 goals but set a career high in assists and points. So, Sillinger saw his game come together and replicate his successful rookie season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sillinger is a good young piece to have in the fold. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nhl\/player\/cole-sillinger-14998\/career-stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two 30 point seasons<\/a> is good for him and he is only going to get better. With proper coaching and development, his game can reach new heights and this is a great deal for both sides. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What This Means for Columbus <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Sillinger contract signals what the future holds for the Blue Jackets. They are showing that they are continuing the youth movement and keeping all their young guys in the fold. While there are still veteran presences on the roster, the youth movement is real in Columbus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While also retaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchki01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirill Marchenko<\/a>, the club still has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fantiad01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Fantilli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnske01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Johnson<\/a>, and now Sillinger and key pieces to build around and develop. That\u2019s where the Sillinger contract is huge going forward. It\u2019s a new year and a new fresh start and it can only go up from here. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Main Photo: Russell LaBounty-USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets are retaining one of their own. Forward Cole Sillinger has a new contract to keep him in the state of Ohio. He is signing a new deal for two years and will have an AAV of $2.25 million. Despite being buried in the basement of the Metropolitan Division, the future is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":442160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4547,34,4548],"tags":[5596,955],"class_list":["post-442159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-cole-sillinger","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}