On Thursday afternoon, the Columbus Blue Jackets announced they had signed center Pierre-Luc Dubois to a two year contract worth $10 million:
BREAKING: The #CBJ have signed C Pierre-Luc Dubois to a two-year/$10 million contract extension.
DETAILS u27a1ufe0f https://t.co/TkFrFlziBn pic.twitter.com/uvrRqkI1Qz— Columbus Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) December 31, 2020That $5M average annual salary was predicted exactly by commenter BrightandSunny earlier this week. Kudos!
As expected, the salary is heavily backloaded, setting up Dubois for a big raise in summer 2022:
PLD will be a restricted free agent that summer, as will defenseman Zach Werenski.