- Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale filed for salary arbitration Sunday, taking both Flyers RFAs off the offer sheet board
- Zegras is coming off career highs of 26 goals and 67 points in his first season in Philadelphia
- Read below for what the filings mean with the Leo Carlsson offer sheet still hanging over the Flyers
Trevor Zegras isn’t going to let anyone poach him this summer.
The Flyers center filed for salary arbitration on Sunday, and so did defenseman Jamie Drysdale, both beating the 5 p.m. ET deadline, per PuckPedia. They were two of 15 restricted free agents to file across the league, a list headlined by Stars winger Jason Robertson.
Filing does more than set a hearing date. It makes a player ineligible for an offer sheet, so no rival team can jump in and force Philadelphia’s hand.
That carries some weight this week. The Flyers are the club that just handed Anaheim’s Leo Carlsson a record-setting offer sheet, and they’re still waiting to learn whether the Ducks match. Now their own two young pieces are shielded from the exact move Danny Briere pulled on someone else’s roster.
Zegras made the deal that brought him over from Anaheim look like a bargain. He posted career highs with 26 goals and 67 points in 82 games, finally getting a healthy, featured role after years of injuries and tension with the Ducks.
Run through every point from his first year in Philadelphia:
He carried it into the playoffs too, with four goals and six points across 10 games. His qualifying offer sits at $5.75 million, matching the three-year deal he signed with Anaheim back in 2023.
Drysdale is the other name Briere still has to sort out on the back end. Arbitration hearings run from late July into early August, giving the Flyers a few weeks to sign both before either one sits across from an arbitrator.
