Sabres News: Salary Arbitration, Development Camp & Olympic Squads, Oh My!

07/07/2009

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The Apologist

MacArthur Accepts Salary Arbitration
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According to a statement from the NHL Players Association, forward Clarke MacArthur has accepted salary arbitration with the Buffalo Sabres.  Typically a player must have four years of NHL experience to be eligible for arbitration, but since MacArthur signed his first contract after turning 20, that term is reduced.

MacArthur just finished his first full season with the Sabres, but with no numbers to gasp at.  He finished the year with 17 goals & 14 assists in 71 games (Side note: he only missed three games the entire year, due to injury).  Over at Die By The Blade, this blogger has calculated MacArthur's worth to be in the $1-2 million range based on other players with similar season stats. 

Assuming blogging calculations aren't good enough for Tom Golisano to write a check out to, the Sabres & MacArthur will now have a hearing with a neutral third party to decide what salary he'll receive.  Once the hearing makes it's decision, the team will have 48 hours to either accept the deal or release MacArthur as an unrestricted free agent.  Our guess is Clarke will be back on the bench next season... but Lord only knows what sort of difference that will make.
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