Arbitration Dates

For the sake of being comprehensive, here are the arbitration dates for the remaining Rangers that have filed for arbitration (and have not since signed). This is the date on which that player's arbitration hearing would take place, if he and the Rangers do not agree to contract terms before then. If the hearing takes place, the player's agent will submit a value they believe is fair, and a third-party arbiter will make a determination of that player's actual value, likely somewhere between the agent's offer and the team's qualifying offer.

Should it come to that, the team has the option of whether or not to accept the arbiter's ruling for a one-year deal at that value. If they do, the player must accept the offer. If they do not, the player becomes a free agent.

We shouldn't see these dates as hearing dates just yet, though. Much more reasonable for now to think of them as deadlines. Arbitration hearings will go on only if the Rangers and the players do not reach deals first, which we should expect them to. So, for now, think of these as the dates by which Sather should have already signed these players, or else things will get kinda hairy:

Brandon Dubinsky (qualified at $2 million): July 21
Brian Boyle (qualified at $605,000): July 25
Ryan Callahan (qualified at $2.4 million): July 28