Yesterday, both Jacob Trouba and Pavel Buchnevich filed for salary arbitration. The reasons their fellow Blueshirt RFA’s Tony DeAngelo and Brendan Lemieux didn’t is because they don’t have the rights to do so.
Standard Practice
Do not be alarmed Rangers fans, this is basically standard practice for unsigned RFA’s with arbitration eligible rights. In total 40 RFA’s filed across the league and a majority if not all of them will not go to an arbitration hearing. Matter of fact the last time a Ranger got that far was way back in 2009 with Nikolai Zherdev.
The Zherdev Incident
The Rangers acquired Nik Zherdev from the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2008.