{"id":493055,"date":"2026-07-23T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=493055"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:27:55","slug":"jet-greaves-contract-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/23\/jet-greaves-contract-nhl\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Greaves Contract Signed to Avoid Arbitration in Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bring you the details of the up-and-coming goaltender <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greavje01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jet Greaves<\/a> contract signing. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Greaves come together on a three-year deal, worth an average annual value of $5 million. Let&#8217;s discuss what this means going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBlVOVX3Qi\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3600px; aspect-ratio: 3600\/2400;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>Credit Image: Andrew J. Kramer\/CSM via ZUMA Wire<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Jet Greaves Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Greaves had been a restricted free agent. Furthermore, it had been announced that they had filed for arbitration to get a deal done. However, as Elliotte Friedman had referenced, the two sides were quite far apart. This deal is a great way of meeting in the middle, and allowing Greaves to continue to develop his game for his next deal in a few years time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Columbus and Jet Greaves have a settlement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3 X $5M<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2080284816910557316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Greaves is a 25-year-old native of Cambridge, Ontario. In 2025-26, he really emerged as a number-one NHL goaltender. He played 55 games on a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/25\/avalanche-trade-valeri-nichushkin\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jacket team<\/a> that finished fifth in the NHL&#8217;s Metropolitan Division. Coming into the season, he only had appeared in 21 NHL games. Needless to say, it was a big jump for the young goalie, and one he handled with grace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/04\/18\/end-of-season-nhl-award-candidates-norris-trophy\/\" target=\"_self\">Last year for Columbus<\/a>, he went 26-19-9 with two shutouts. He also had a 2.60 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage. In 76 career NHL games, he now carries a very respectable .913 save percentage. With numbers like that, on a middle-of-the-pack Columbus team, it is not hard to see why he signed the deal he ultimately signed.<\/p>\n<p>As the Jet Greaves contract becomes finalized, it isn&#8217;t hard to see the potential his has. He has been on many people&#8217;s radar as a goaltender of the future. Case in point, his performance for Canada at the 2026 World Hockey Championships was a great example. In eight games for Canada, he went 6-2-0, with a 1.88 GAA and a .920 SV%, including one shutout. He has put himself in the conversation for future, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/04\/24\/early-look-potential-team-canada-roster-iihf-world-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">best-on-best Team Canada<\/a> rosters in the future. Now, he has a contract that can see him command that respect in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bring you the details of the up-and-coming goaltender Jet Greaves contract signing. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Greaves come together on a three-year deal, worth an average annual value of $5 million. Let&#8217;s discuss what this means going forward. &nbsp; Credit Image: Andrew J. Kramer\/CSM via ZUMA Wire Jet Greaves Contract Greaves had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":477955,"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":[8199,662],"class_list":["post-493055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-jet-greaves","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493055","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=493055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493940,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493055\/revisions\/493940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}