LATEST | Blue Jackets Goaltender Has Left The Team To Return Home

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S. Harper
March 10, 2023 (4:51 PM)

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The Columbus Blue Jackets announced sad news today about their goaltender Elvis Merzlikins.

According to "The Fourth Period's" Hockey Insider David Pagnotta:

Merzlikins has left the Columbus Blue Jackets to return to his home country of Latvia to be with his family and his grandmother who is seriously ill. .

Pagnotta also shared the Blue Jackets have added goaltender Daniil Tarasov to the roster on a emergency recall from @Monster Hockey

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On behalf of Canucks Daily we want to give our best wishes to the entire Merzlikins family during this time.

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