
The cutoff date for Jason Robertson's contract negotiations is just days away.
The pressure is officially on for a number of teams in the National Hockey League with 14 arbitration hearings locked in place after 15 arbitration eligible restricted free agents filed for salary arbitration earlier this month.
All eyes will of course be on the arbitration hearing scheduled for Dallas Stars forward Jason Robertson, and fans aren't going to have to wait very long. Robertson's hearing is scheduled for the 25th of July which gives his camp and the Dallas Stars less than 2 weeks to work out a new contract before being forced to go through the often difficult arbitration process.
Here are the dates for all 14 players:
Monday, July 20th
Jamie Drysdale - Philadelphia Flyers
Cole Perfetti - Winnipeg Jets
Wednesday, July 22nd
Trevor Zegras - Philadelphia Flyers
Thursday, July 23rd
Jet Greaves - Columbus Blue Jackets
Saturday, July 25th
Xavier Bourgault - Ottawa Senators
Jason Robertson - Dallas Stars
Connor McMichael - St. Louis Blues
Monday, July 27th
Cole Sillinger - Columbus Blue Jackets
Tuesday, July 28th
Nick Robertson - Pittsburgh Penguins
Wednesday, July 29th
Braden Schneider - New York Rangers
Ronan Seeley - Carolina Hurricanes
Thursday, July 30th
Alex Jefferies - New York Islanders
Kirby Dach - Montreal Canadiens
Saturday, August 1st
Akira Schmid - Florida Panthers
Peyton Krebs - Buffalo Sabres
Even the teams who have the benefit of having their hearing in the later portion of these dates will now quickly out of runway if they don't get a deal done in time. Arbitration can be a very difficult process for a team and player to go through, and it has caused pretty significant problems for those who have failed to find a deal before going through it in the past.
The most recent example that comes to mind was Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman who openly expressed his displeasure with how he was treated by the Bruins during the process.
"You don't forget what was said," said Swayman of the process at the time
Swayman would go on to hold out in his subsequent contract negotiations, openly claiming that he was looking to reshape the market for young goaltenders coming up behind him after the arbitration process he had experienced earlier with the Bruins.
The closest example to a player of that level this time around will of course be Robertson and, with the situation in Dallas already appearing to be quite contentious from the outside looking in, we could certainly see another situation where Robertson's arbitration hearing does more harm than good in the long term.
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