Today at 4pm CT was the deadline for players to file for salary arbitration in this rapid-paced start to the offseason. Once that threshold passed, the NHLPA released the full list of 26 players who have filed. That list:
Matt Grzelcyk (BOS)
Victor Olofsson (BUF)
Sam Reinhart (BUF)
Linus Ullmark (BUF)
Andrew Mangiapane (CGY)
Clark Bishop (CAR)
Haydn Fleury (CAR)
Warren Foegele (CAR)
Gustav Forsling (CAR)
Ryan Graves (COL)
Tyler Bertuzzi (DET)
MacKenzie Weegar (FLA)
Kaapo Kahkonen (MIN)
Joshua Ho-Sang (NYI)
Ryan Pulock (NYI)
Devon Toews (NYI)
Tony DeAngelo (NYR)
Alexandar Georgiev (NYR)
Brendan Lemieux (NYR)
Ryan Strome (NYR)
Connor Brown (OTT)
Christian Jaros (OTT)
Nick Paul (OTT)
Chris Tierney (OTT)
Ilya Mikheyev (TOR)
Jake Virtanen (VAN)
Other restricted free agents can still be taken to arbitration by their clubs. The deadline for club-elected salary arbitration filing is October 11 at 4pm CT. Salary arbitration hearings will be held between October 20 and November 8.
It is important to note that these players who have elected salary arbitration are no longer eligible to sign an offer sheet.
well, no Ilya offer sheet
@DarkSide830 – Would have been a convenient way to dump salary, but they’re supposed to be pretty high on him, so it’ll be interesting to see if the arbitrator tries to give him the moon, or is forced to keep in line with the COVID-cap. I was under the impression that the Leafs could walk away from the arb ruling, then try to convince him to come back on the cheap, but I’m not about to flat line trying to read legalese of the CBA to confirm it. That said, they could come to an agreement just before the actual hearing, so we’ll just have to wait and see. As of right now, though, CapFriendly shows them with a paltry $1.3MM in space.