{"id":463891,"date":"2025-03-05T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=463891"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:33:58","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-signing-of-forward-shows-organizational-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/05\/columbus-blue-jackets-signing-of-forward-shows-organizational-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets Signing of Forward Shows Organizational Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/01\/nhl-predictions-stadium-series-w-detroit-vs-columbus\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> are continuing their efforts in being a responsible organization led by general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/waddedo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-05_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Waddell<\/a>. Today they announced a big deal, as tough guy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/olivima01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-05_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathieu Olivier<\/a> signs a six-year deal. The deal is worth a total of $18 million. This is a great deal personally and just a great sign the team is committed to identifying solid people.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And there it is: <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CBJ<\/a> have signed Mathieu Olivier to a six-year, $18 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aportzline\/status\/1897286310299361706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mathieu Olivier Signs Six-Year Contract Extension<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It seems the recently turned 28 year old has really elevated his game this year. Before Columbus, he also played parts of three seasons in Nashville. This is his third campaign in Ohio.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He\u2019s finally established himself into a more regular contributor, up to 14:29 a game of average ice time. Furthermore, he\u2019s smashed his previous career marks. He has 12 goals and 21 points on the year. Previously, his career highs were five goals and 15 points. Even his hit total is up as he\u2019s at 228 on the campaign thus far. He plays a responsible game through his experience and maturity, and it paid off today. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What Does this Mean in CBJ<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For Columbus as a whole, the fact that Mathieu Olivier signs a deal like this is a good thing. Additionally, lots of players are having big seasons for them. Guys like Kirill Marchenko and Zach Werenski, their top-two point producers, have shown they are near star status in the league. Werenski in particular, with 64 points on the year from the blueline. Columbus is currently leading the Eastern Conference wild card by a slim two points. However, with them exceeding expectations this year, they just won\u2019t go away. Olivier is such a great example of players playing above expectations. It has been such a feel good story in Columbus this year and this is just another example. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck &#8211; Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets are continuing their efforts in being a responsible organization led by general manager Don Waddell. Today they announced a big deal, as tough guy Mathieu Olivier signs a six-year deal. The deal is worth a total of $18 million. This is a great deal personally and just a great sign the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":463894,"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":[6117,6612],"class_list":["post-463891","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-mathieu-olivier"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463891","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=463891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463897,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463891\/revisions\/463897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}