The NHL Players’ Association announced the summer slate of arbitration filings and among the 40 players around the league who have taken this option, Penguins’ forward Zach Aston-Reese was one of them.
What does this mean? Well not necessarily a lot. This is just a step in the process for a restricted free agent to speed along the contract process. For instance last year there were 44 filings, 40 of them were resolved with a contract signed prior to the hearing. In 2017 all 30 cases around the league that got filed ended up resolved with a new contract before the hearing.