Elvis Merzļikins Has A Couple Milestones In Sight

When it comes to goalie history for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Sergei Bobrovsky is the gold standard for that position. He owns the record for wins, games played, shutouts, and goals against average. It's going to take a lot for someone else to break those records.

In the shootout win against the Vancouver Canucks, Elvis Merzļikins moved into second place for career shootout wins for the CBJ passing Steve Mason. Elvis now sits with 13 shootout wins, while leader Bobrovsky has 23 such wins.

As far as other records, Merzļikins is close to moving into second place in a few categories.

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Merzļikins currently has 92 career wins, which right now is good enough for 3rd all-time. Steve Mason had 96 wins in his CBJ career. If Elvis can manage five more wins, he'd move into second all-time behind Sergei Bobrovsky and his 213 career wins. That record seems out of reach for Merzļikins.

He also has 11 shutouts in his career, which is fourth for now. One more shutout will get him to 12 and will tie him with Marc Denis. Third on that list is Mason, who has 19 shutouts, and Bobrovsky has 33, which seems out of reach as well.

Before the season, most people would've been excited if Merzlikins won 15 games. Right now, he's sitting at 24-19-5, and with 10 games left, he has a shot at hitting 30 wins for the season. More importantly, he has a chance to equal or pass his career high of 27 wins, set back in the 21-22 season.

Unfortunately, Merzļikins also has 98 career losses, which is one behind Steve Mason. So, there's a good chance he'll be third all-time in losses after this season. But that'll happen when you play so many years with a single team, so nothing to see here. Marc Denis and Sergei Bobrovsky lead that category by a large margin.

Elvis Merzļikins has had a bounce-back year for the Columbus Blue Jackets, but he'll need to take it up a notch these last 10 games to get his team into the playoffs.

Has Elvis gotten his swagger back?

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