The Blue Jackets secured the future of their blue line, bringing back Ivan Provorov on a seven-year contract, but did they overpay?

The Columbus Blue Jackets and defenseman Ivan Provorov have reportedly reached an agreement on a seven-year contract.

The veteran GM put his stamp on the Kings with two high-risk bets on the back end in Cody Ceci and Brian Dumoulin at the combined cost of $8.5 million. At that price, it would’ve been better to just overpay Gavrikov — at least you know he’s a rock-solid top-four defenseman. These guys? Not so much. Maybe they were at one point, just not anymore.