Yesterday evening, the Boston Herald’s Steve Conroy helped us learn that no NHL teams filed for salary arbitration hearings with their restricted free agent players, which means that Jonatan Berggren remains a RFA who needs to work out a contract with his team sans arbitrator (as opposed to Joe Veleno, who filed for salary arbitration through the NHLPA on Friday). Today, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman confirmed Conroy’s news…
0 teams filed for club-elected arbitration yesterday…so we’ve got the 14 previously-announced cases
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 7, 2024
And another Boston scribe, the Boston Globe’s Kevin Paul Dupont, explained what that means for both the Bruins and Jeremy Swayman and the Red Wings and Berggren:
Swayman (RFA) and Bruins have elected not to go to salary arbitration.
— Kevin Paul Dupont (@GlobeKPD) July 7, 2024
RFAs must sign by Dec. 1, or sit out the NHL season.