As per an NHLPA release, restricted free agent defenseman Jamie Oleksiak has officially filed for arbitration. He’ll be the only Penguin from the 2017-18 roster to do so this offseason.
Per Matt Cane (@Cane_Matt) and his 2018 free agent predictor model, Oleksiak should end up making somewhere along the lines of two years at $1.7 million AAV, though, according to a source, the “Big Rig” manages to agree to a deal around the $1.75 million mark.
Pittsburgh currently only has around $2.8 million left in cap room (via CapFriendly), so GM Jim Rutherford won’t be going any higher than that, and a small check for the big man would be ideal against it, especially if Rutherford still wants to make any more splash additions in free agency.