NHL Arbitration period begins Monday

 

Restricted free agents and their respective NHL clubs will begin salary arbitration this week in Toronto.

Arbitration meetings conclude on July 31.

A decision in the case must be made by the arbitrator within 48 hours of the meeting’s conclusion.

The arbitrator has the option to hand out one or two-year awards.

Teams will then have 48 hours (or 48 hours after the team's last hearing is concluded if they have multiple players) to accept the contract or walk away, immediately making the player an unrestricted free agent.

Note: A team that requests arbitration does not have walk-away rights.

Below is the current list of arbitration meetings:

Player	Team	Hearing Date
Clarke MacArthur	Buffalo	July 20
Daniel Winnik	Phoenix	July 21
Nigel Dawes	Calgary	July 22
Marc Methot	Columbus	July 23
Matt Hunwick	Boston	July 24
Travis Zajac	New Jersey	July 24
Nate Thompson	NY Islanders	July 27
Kyle Wellwood	Vancouver	July 28
Milan Jurcina	Washington	July 28
Matt Smaby	Tampa Bay	July 28
Denis Grebeshkov	Edmonton	July 29
Josh Harding	Minnesota	July 29
Tomas Plekanec	Montreal	July 30
Tuomo Ruutu	Carolina	July 30
Jiri Hudler	Detroit	July 30
Nikolai Zherdev	NY Rangers	July 31
Kyle Brodziak	Minnesota	July 31