{"id":798745,"date":"2026-07-13T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:54:08","slug":"report-hearing-dates-for-player-elected-salary-arbitration-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798745\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hearing dates for player-elected salary arbitration scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing dates for all of the NHL&#8217;s restricted free agent players who elected salary arbitration have been scheduled, according to PuckPedia.<\/p>\n<p>There are 15 player-elected hearings scheduled between July 20 and August 1, though one has already been settled after the Ottawa Senators and\u00a0Xavier Bourgault\u00a0agreed to a one-year deal worth $850,000 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Players and teams can reach a deal at any time before their hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the following players elected salary arbitration, they are therefore\u00a0ineligible to sign\u00a0an offer sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Through arbitration, players can only be awarded a one- or two-year contract. In player-elected hearings, the team decides whether it&#8217;s a one- or two-year deal, but players who are only one year away from becoming UFAs can only be awarded a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of player-elected hearing dates:<\/p>\n<p>Monday, July 20: Jamie Drysdale (Philadelphia Flyers)<br \/>Monday, July 20: Cole Perfetti (Winnipeg Jets)<br \/>Wednesday, July 22: Trevor Zegras (Philadelphia Flyers)<br \/>Thursday, July 23: Jet Greaves (Columbus Blue Jackets)<br \/>Saturday, July 25: Xavier Bourgault (Ottawa Senators)*<br \/>Saturday, July 25: Jason Robertson (Dallas Stars)<br \/>Saturday, July 25: Connor McMichael (St. Louis Blues)<br \/>Monday, July 27: Cole Sillinger (Columbus Blue Jackets)<br \/>Tuesday, July 28: Nick Robertson (Pittsburgh Penguins)<br \/>Wednesday, July 29: Braden Schneider (New York Rangers)<br \/>Wednesday, July 29: Ronan Seeley (Carolina Hurricanes)<br \/>Thursday, July 30: Alex Jefferies (New York Islanders)<br \/>Thursday, July 30: Kirby Dach (Montreal Canadiens)<br \/>Saturday, August 1: Akira Schmid (Florida Panthers)<br \/>Saturday, August 1: Peyton Krebs (Buffalo Sabres)<\/p>\n<p>*A deal has been reached ahead of the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hearing dates for all of the NHL&#8217;s restricted free agent players who elected salary arbitration have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-798745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}