A day before the season started, not a single hockey fan expected the Columbus Blue Jackets to be one point out of a playoff ...

Columbus goalie Elvis Merzļikins gave an interview with diena.lv, a Latvian language website based in Latvia. You can read it here. He talked about a few things in the interview, but one issue ...

Elvis Merzļikins made 25 saves on 26 VGK shots. The Blue Jacket PK went 1/1, stopping the only Vegas power play. What's Next: The Jackets travel to Salt Lake City to take on the Utah Hockey Club for ...

Ivan Provorov(3), Zach Werenski(11), and Sean Monahan(10, 11) scored the goals for the CBJ, while Elvis Merzļikins played what was arguably his best game of the year by making 40 saves in the ...

Merzlikins stopped 36 shots in Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Rangers.

Falls to Utah in OT ...

But perhaps one of the biggest reasons why the Blue Jackets are right there is because they are getting more from their goaltending specifically Elvis Merzlikins. Since the game that Merzlkins ...

Elvis Merzlikins has an .887 save percentage, while Daniil Tarasov is all the way down at .857, and it makes you wonder how much Columbus could separate themselves from the playoff race in the ...

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They won their fifth straight game at home because of skill, defensive plays in their own zone, an impressive ability to counterpunch, goalie Elvis Merzlikins (31 saves), a growing confidence ...

The win moves them back into the wild card two spot. Elvis Merzļikins was spectacular in this game, stopping 25 of 26 Vegas shots. With the one goal given up, Elvis has now allowed two or fewer ...