Captain has shown he’s worth every penny

Rick Nash was a rich young man yesterday. He is a much richer young man today. The thing about it is, he wanted to make his money here, in Columbus, and be a part of a process here, in Columbus.

Nash wants to win a Stanley Cup, and he thinks he knows the parade route.

Nash signed an eight-year contract extension last night worth

$62.4 million. Throughout the hockey world, there will be those who say the Blue Jackets overpaid for their franchise player. We heard that last time Nash signed a contract extension, in 2004, when the Jackets gave him a five-year deal worth $27 million. That contract was a bet: If Nash was going to be a star, if he was going to be the cornerstone of the franchise, it was a good contract. And it was.

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