Elliotte Friedman: The New York Rangers filed $3.6 million for arbitration for Ryan Strome, who countered with $5.7 million.
Vince Z. Mercogliano of LoHud: The Rangers-Strome arbitration hearing is set for Thursday, The middle point of the filings is $4.65 million.
The Rangers may not be convinced that Strome is their long-term solution centering their second line. Before they had sent Strome his qualifying offer on October 7th, GM Jeff Gorton had said “we had some things we were talking to some teams about.”
Since they don’t really have a second-line center option aside from Strome, remaining with the organization for this season makes sense.