The results are in from last week’s arbitration hearings between the Toronto Maple Leafs and goaltender Ilya Samsonov and the Chicago Blackhawks and forward Philipp Kurashev.
Samsonov was awarded a one-year, $3.55-million contract by an independent arbitrator, almost doubling the $1.8 million he made with the Maple Leafs in 2022-23. He will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2023-24 season.
The 26-year-old posted a career-high .919 save percentage last season and a 27-10-5 record in 42 games.
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Kurashev was awarded a two-year contract worth $4.5 million by the arbiter in his case. That’s a healthy raise over a league minimum $750,000 he made last season while toiling on a one-year deal.
The 23-year-old had nine goals and 16 assists in 70 games during the 2022-23 campaign.
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The Seattle Kraken re-signed defenseman Vince Dunn to a four-year, $29.4 million contract on Friday, keeping the two parties from going to arbtitration.
Dunn, 26, had a career-high 14 goals and 64 points in the regular season playing in the top defensive pairing for the second-year franchise. He add a goal and six assists in Seattle’s 14 playoff games, averaging more than 23 minutes per game in the postseason
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