A Huge $4.7M Gap In Arbitration Filings By Blue Jackets & Jet Greaves

25-year-old Jet Greaves made himself into a legitimate starter in the NHL this past season, starting 53 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets, and posted a .908 save percentage. As a restricted free agent this summer, he filed for arbitration. But the numbers for their upcoming hearing reveal a massive gap as the two sides get set to duke it out at the arbitration table. 

The Blue Jackets have filed at $2.8 million, while the Greaves camp has filed at $7.5 million. The hearing is set for Thursday. 

Arbitration filings are in for Columbus and Jet Greaves

Team: $2.8M

Player: $7.5M

Remember these are strategic, but that is quite a gap

Hearing Thursday. Once it starts, there can be no settlement

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 21, 2026

The arbitrator does not have to pick one or the other, but will decide on somewhere in between the two numbers, thus making each side's extreme entries very strategic, as Friedman notes. Any way you look at it, however, it is a sizeable gap. 

Jackets insider Aaron Portzline projects a settlement somewhere between $4.5M and $5.5M on a one-year deal. For context, AFP Analytics was projecting a one-year deal for Greaves to come in at $4.3 million. The lopsided filing by the goalie's side could bring that up.

On the season, Greaves posted a 26-19-9 record with that .908 save percentage and a 2.60 goals-against average.

One other Columbus player is poised for an arb hearing as well. Forward Cole Sillinger is set for next Monday. 

Portzline adds, however, that since joining the NHL as an expansion franchise in 2000, the Blue Jackets have never had a player go through the arbitration process. They have always settled in advance. 

We'll see if that record remains intact.