Boll Avoids Arbitration

Another tough guy contract on the books, as the Blue Jackets signed Jared Boll to a new 2-year deal worth $1.45 million in total, a $725,000 cap hit per year.  In three seasons with Columbus, Boll has racked up 555 minutes in penalties, remarkably with his totals dropping each year, picking up a mere 149 minutes in 2010.  He should be considered a good goon for pools with penalty minutes, but not so much of a good scorer, only picking up 7 points in 68 games.

Forwards	Defense	Goalies
Rick Nash	Fedor Tyutin	Steve Mason
Antoine Vermette	Kris Russell	Mathieu Garon
Kristian Huselius	Jan Hejda
R.J. Umberger	Mike Commodore
Jakub Voracek	Marc Methot
Derrick Brassard	Rostislav Klesla
Chris Clark
Ethan Moreau
Sami Pahlsson
Derek Dorsett
Andrew Murray
Jared Boll
Nikita Filatov

The Jackets are drawing closer and closer to a finished roster and we're not even at the end of July. It will be hard for a prospect to draw in with this level of talent already signed. This group of 21 players is signed on for about $52 million and there is also a buyout on the books that brings their cap hit to approximately $52.6 million. The biggest item left on their agenda is Anton Stralman, who has an arbitration hearing to help the process along on the way, so they should be sorted before too long.