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The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed goaltender Jean-Francois Berube to a one-year, two-way National Hockey League/American Hockey League contract for the 2021-22 season, club General Manager and Alternate Governor Jarmo Kekalainen announced today. The netminder was previously a part of the Blue Jackets organization during the 2018-19 campaign following a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks.

Berube, 30, has registered a 9-10-4 record with a 3.30 goals-against average and .898 save percentage in 34 career NHL games with the Blackhawks and New York Islanders from 2015-18. He went 3-6-1 with a 3.78 GAA and .894 SV% in 13 contests with Chicago in his most recent NHL action in 2017-18.
The Repentigny, Quebec native owns a 119-81-15 record with a 2.58 GAA, .906 SV% and 11 shutouts in 223 career AHL games with the Ontario Reign, Hartford Wolf Pack, Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Cleveland Monsters, Rockford IceHogs, Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Manchester Monarchs from 2009-21. This past season, he was 7-9-2 with a 3.39 GAA and .885 SV% in 19 contests with the Reign. He went 21-17-5 with a 3.01 GAA and .896 SV% in 43 outings in his lone campaign with the Monsters in 2018-19. In 2014-15, he led the AHL in wins after posting 37-9-4 record with 2.18 GAA and .913 SV% with Manchester and led the franchise to a Calder Cup championship after finishing the postseason 13-3 with a 2.30 GAA and .898 SV%.
Originally Los Angeles' fourth round selection, 95th overall, in the 2009 NHL Draft, the 6-1, 175-pound goaltender went 55-37-10 with a 2.77 GAA, .901 SV% and five shutouts in 115 career games with the Montreal Juniors of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2008-11. In his final season, he was 32-7-8 with a 2.60 GAA, .902 SV% and three shutouts in 50 contests.
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