Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale, two of the Flyers’ restricted free agents, filed for salary arbitration ahead of Sunday’s 5 p.m. ET deadline.
Zegras and Drysdale are the Flyers’ most notable RFAs. As expected, they were extended qualifying offers last Monday, along with Nikita Grebenkin and Hunter McDonald.
With Zegras and Drysdale filing for arbitration, the club and each player’s respective side can go to a hearing overseen by an independent arbitrator to settle on a salary. The dates for the hearings have yet to be announced. They can start as early as July 20.
The Flyers can still negotiate and strike deals with Zegras and Drysdale before then. That oftentimes happens, but we’ll see if that’s the case here.
There hasn’t been any real concern this offseason about the Flyers re-signing their RFAs. After last season, Zegras and Drysdale were very open about wanting to stay with the Flyers.
Zegras is coming off a career resurgence in his first season with the club, while Drysdale took noticeable strides on both sides of the puck.