The Columbus Blue Jackets and Jet Greaves avoided salary arbitration yesterday and agreed on a three-year cope 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.
- Update: The Blue Jackets and Cole Sillinger avoid salary arbitration and agree on a three-year cope with a $4.625 million cap hit.
Teams are keeping track of the Columbus Blue Jackets and their cap situation … an Adam Fantilli offer sheet?
Each day Faceoff: (before Greaves re-signed) David Pagnotta on the Columbus Blue Jackets salary cap situation, and if teams are taking a look at it and wondering about an Adam Fantilli offer sheet.
“If we’re seeing (Cole) Sillinger within the 4 to 5 (million) range, and (Jet) Reeves within the five to 6 range (signed a three-year, $5 million per deal). Hastily you’re taking a look at around 10 million, 11 million for those guys, and that’s dropping their cap space all the way down to the 13 (million) mark.
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Reason why I’m bringing that up is, are other teams which are lurking going to have a look at this case and go, can we force Columbus’s hand here? Now, I might imagine even when it’s anywhere near that number or above, that Columbus goes to match, but puts them in a clumsy position because they’re going to should most certainly unencumber additional money.
So there are other teams which are taking a look at this case, going, they don’t have a deal yet, Fantilli and the Jackets. They’ve got other business to attend, and one in every of them being pressing, given the, the arb situation with Greaves (settled on Thursday). Perhaps there are teams which are taking a look at this, going, not perhaps, there are, there are teams taking a look at this case, going, perhaps that is a possibility for us to pounce here with respect to the entire offer sheet business.
- Aaron Portzline: “Adam Fantilli, a restricted free agent, is vacationing in Italy. Talks on a short lived hold, but there was progress, and the 2 sides will connect early next week.”
Now, I didn’t anticipate that a number of weeks ago, even after the Carlson stuff. But it surely is something that some teams are not less than considering internally. Whether that develops, we’ll, we’ll wait and see. But from Columbus’s side, suddenly they’re in a spot where they’re going, okay, we’ve got to maintain tabs on a number of various things here.”
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