11 NHL players have filed for arbitration.

A significant number of players have filed for salary arbitration this summer and now numerous teams in the National Hockey League will have to try to work out a deal with those players or risk entering what can be one of the uglier processes in the NHL.

On Saturday, the National Hockey League Players Association officially announced that 11 players had filled for salary arbitration, with 9 different teams in total represented here. The players who have filed for arbitration are the following:

Morgan Barron (Winnipeg Jets)
Lukas Dostal (Anaheim Ducks)
Drew Helleson (Anaheim Ducks)
Kaapo Kakko (Seattle Kraken)
Nicholas Robertson (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Dylan Samberg (Winnipeg Jets)
Arvid Soderblom (Chicago Blackhawks)
Jayden Struble (Montreal Canadiens)
Conor Timmins (Buffalo Sabres)
Maksim Tsyplakov (New York Islanders)
Gabriel Vilardi (Winnipeg Jets)

Salary arbitration can be one of the more challenging processes in the National Hockey League and can often lead to resentment between the player in question and his team. Perhaps the most notable recent example of this is when the Boston Bruins took goaltender Jeremy Swayman to salary arbitration, with Swayman making it clear that the process had a profound impact on him.

"My arbitrator started first, he said all of these great things," said Swayman as per The Athletic. "The arbitrator on their side, their job is to help the management side and to rip players, and hearing that you’re not worthy of what you think you’re worthy of, that was hard to hear. You don’t forget what was said. I wrote ’em down and I looked at ’em the other day and I had a couple of checkmarks. My biggest knock was how I wasn’t trustworthy in the playoffs. Check"

The process clearly left a rift between Swayman and the Bruins and many believe it fueled his most recent contract holdout, one in which the Bruins capitulated and signed Swayman to an 8 year deal at an average annual value and salary cap hit of $8.25 million per season.

As a result both teams and players try to avoid the process and deals are often worked out before both sides are forced to go before an arbitrator. Whether or not the teams impacted by this year's round of player-elected arbitration will manage to reach a new deal before arbitration remains to be seen.