The Columbus Blue Jackets have come to terms on a three-year contract extension with forward Jared Boll, the team announced on Friday afternoon. The financial terms of the contract were not made public at the time of this writing.
Boll is entering the final year of a two-year, $2.1 million contract that carries an annual average value of $1.05 million against the salary cap, according to CapGeek.com. He was going to become an unrestricted free agent next summer.
Originally selected with the No. 101 overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Boll has spent the entirety of his career with the Columbus franchise. Boll has appeared in 388 career regular season games and is currently the club's longest tenured member. He has accumulated 52 points (24 goals and 28 assists) in his career and has registered an average ice time of eight minutes per game.
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