The goalie was 12-9-6 with a 3.19 goals-against average and .883 save percentage in 34 games (25 starts) for the Detroit Red Wings last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdding depth in net has been a priority for us so we are very excited to add Cam Talbot to our club,\u201d Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell said. \u201cHe is a big, smart, fundamentally sound goaltender who has won a lot of games in our league. \u00a0He is also a quality person, and we think he\u2019ll be a great addition to our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old, who was undrafted, is 278-204-53 with a 2.69 GAA, .911 save percentage and 33 shutouts in 567 regular-season games (533 starts) for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Minnesota Wild, Ottawa Senators, Los Angeles Kings and Red Wings. He is 16-18 with a 2.75 GAA, .915 save percentage and six shutouts in 36 Stanley Cup Playoff games (34 starts).<\/p>\n
The addition of Talbot gives Columbus another veteran goalie entering training camp this week with Elvis Merzlikins<\/a> out indefinitely after having shoulder surgery on Aug. 17. Jet Greaves, who won the No. 1 job last season, and Pheonix Copley<\/a>\u00a0are the other goalies on the Blue Jackets roster with NHL experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goalie was 12-9-6 with a 3.19 goals-against average and .883 save percentage in 34 games (25 starts)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-892603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}