After all of the hullabaloo following the draft and free agency a quietly important deadline passed on Friday. For restricted free agents with arbitration rights, Friday was the deadline to file for a hearing and across the league 14 players took action. Some of the bigger names were Carolina’s Martin Necas and Buffalo’s Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, but there was also a name familiar to Lightning fans – J.J. Moser.
That’s right, the newest Bolt is kicking off his tenure with the team with an arbitrator-led meeting about how much money he should make next season. Don’t worry, this isn’t a huge deal, and, honestly, there isn’t enough history between the two parties for their to be much contention in the process.