Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times: Both Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat filed for salary arbitration, but there is still plenty of time for the Lightning to sign them. Hearing will be scheduled for late July/early August.
The Lightning have over $13.5 million on salary cap space and it doesn’t sound like they are far apart on a deal.
[Smith] thinks that Johnson could sign a deal around $5 million a season, with Palat coming in a little lower.
GM Steve Yzerman had term in mind when dealing with free agency this year.