Long story long, the Wings didn’t file for salary arbitration with Jonatan Berggren

I’ll admit that, the day after the Red Wings’ summer development camp ended, I was hoping that I could get a break. I assumed that the NHL would release its list of restricted free agent players with whom NHL teams had filed for club-elected salary arbitration hearings at or around 5 PM.

Yesterday, the NHLPA posted their list of restricted free agent players who chose to take their clubs to arbitration (including Red Wings forward Joe Veleno) at 4:55 PM, in alphabetical order, no less.

Today, it’s 8:30 PM, and I’ve been on Twitter/X all day, and nothing..

Until I grumbled about the NHL’s tardiness, and the Boston Herald’s Stephen Conroy, who informed us all that Jeremy Swayman will not be taken to arbitration by his team…

And after I growled aloud in Tweet form…

So Mr. Conroy very kindly informed us all of some pertinent information:

So, with many thanks to Mr. Conroy, we may assume that the Red Wings did not file for salary arbitration with one Jonatan Berggren.

The Wings will work out a contract with “Johnny Burgers” on their own time schedule, and I’m certain that the two will reach terms before the end of the summer.

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George Malik

My name is George Malik, and I'm the Malik Report's editor/blogger/poster. I have been blogging about the Red Wings since 2006, and have worked with MLive and Kukla's Korner. Thank you for reading!

One thought on “Long story long, the Wings didn’t file for salary arbitration with Jonatan Berggren”

  1. george, ease up a bit. you come back each development camp and training camp and burn yourself out and then you’re out of commission for months. i know there are other complications, and i’m sorry for being insensitive.

    i value what you do, i have for almost two decades. a daily summary is more than enough, if you post a 2-4 times a day, great. no one is asking you to sit around for hours and wait to see if Detroit elects for team-files arb over berggren (something that almost never happens). no one needs you to post HSJ’s tripe as soon as it auto-posts at 6 am. no one needs to know that it does autopost at 6 am. no one needs you to post some nonsense tweet from the red wings’ marketing department about a giveaway. no one needs to know that toledo might re-sign some 27-year-old glorified beer leaguer. don’t burn yourself out over stuff that isn’t hard news. that’s what people rely on you for.

    if you posted about this the next morning, how many would know the difference? if you sit and wait at your computer for news, of course you’re going to burn out in a few days.

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