{"id":463501,"date":"2025-06-30T17:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=463501"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:32:25","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-announce-dependable-defenceman-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/30\/columbus-blue-jackets-announce-dependable-defenceman-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets Announce Dependable Defenceman Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 season has been one that seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/23\/nhl-rumours-columbus-blue-jackets-hope-to-sign-d-men\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> exceed expectations. However, any chances of playoffs eventually went to the wayside. The evidence of that conclusion of it being a good season overall is with the announcement that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/provoiv01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Provorov<\/a> signs a contract extension with the club. Today we found out that the Russian defenceman has been signed.<\/p>\n<p>This deal is for eight years with an average cap hit of $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBJ and pending UFA Ivan Provorov are finalizing a 7-year contract at $8.5M AAV per season<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1939797169914962303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Ivan Provorov Signs is a Good Move<\/h3>\n<p>The 28-year-old d-man has proven to be a durable defenceman. This past year in Columbus had been no different. Moreover, his career-high came back in his second NHL season with 41 points. This season, things went smooth and he posted 33 points. Furthermore, his average ice time has been a strong indicator of his performance year-to-year and overall reliability. His season total is right around his career total of over 23-and-a-half minutes. Therefore, staying in a comfortable situation and the pressure that comes with potential future playoff drives shouldn&#8217;t be difficult. He has played well in his just two post-season appearances, where he totaled 22 games. Columbus is lucky to have him.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/20\/philadelphia-flyers-2025-nhl-entry-draft-potential-movement\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> seventh overall selection in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Since then he is getting close to 700 career games through nine NHL seasons. This is a good move to help solidify your blueline and he can contribute to a team in a number of different ways with his play style. He has always done well at combining strength, with just enough skill.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>This Ivan Provorov deal was the move that kind of was anticipated for the Blue Jackets. They have played well, and general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/waddedo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Waddell<\/a> saw an opportunity to make a deal that works for player and team, and took it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Danny Wild-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 season has been one that seen the Columbus Blue Jackets exceed expectations. However, any chances of playoffs eventually went to the wayside. The evidence of that conclusion of it being a good season overall is with the announcement that\u00a0Ivan Provorov signs a contract extension with the club. Today we found out that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":461360,"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":[6117,601,662],"class_list":["post-463501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-columbus-blue-jackets-news","tag-ivan-provorov","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463501","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463501"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471595,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463501\/revisions\/471595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}