The Toronto Maple Leafs’ Nick Robertson and the Winnipeg Jets’ Gabriel Vilardi and Dylan Samberg are amongst 11 restricted free brokers who filed for wage arbitration on Saturday, with potential hearings to run between July 20 and Aug. 4.
Arbitration hearings are sometimes prevented when groups attain agreements and re-sign their restricted free agent. As soon as that participant recordsdata for arbitration, he isn’t eligible to obtain a suggestion sheet from a rival workforce.
Robertson scored a career-high 15 targets and had seven assists in 2024-25. Vilardi is coming off a season by which he established career-highs in targets (27), assists (34) and factors (61) in 71 video games. Samberg additionally had a profession season by scoring six targets and 20 factors whereas compiling a plus-34 score in even energy as he logged a median of 21 minutes.
Ahead Morgan Barron was the third Jets participant to file for arbitration. Anaheim Geese goalie Lukáš Dostál and Seattle Kraken winger Kaapo Kakko are different notables on the listing.
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Some notable restricted free brokers didn’t file for arbitration, together with Buffalo’s Bowen Byram, Utah’s Jack McBain and Philadelphia’s Cam York.
Dostál went 23-23-7 with a 3.10 goals-against common and .903 save share for Anaheim. Kakko had a mixed 14 targets and 30 assists in 79 video games with the New York Rangers and Seattle.
Different gamers who elected wage arbitration are Arvid Soderblom (Chicago), Drew Helleson (Anaheim), Jayden Struble (Montreal), Conor Timmins (Buffalo) and Maxim Tsyplakov (N.Y. Islanders).
The deadline for the second club-elected wage arbitration notification is Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.
(Picture of Nick Robertson: Bruce Bennett / Getty Pictures)