TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning signed Tanner Jeannot to a two-year contract Saturday, avoiding arbitration with the team’s only restricted free agent.
The deal, worth an average annual value of $2.665 million, keeps the Lightning’s top trade deadline acquisition under team control through the 2024-25 season.
Jeannot, 26, had filed for arbitration on July 5 and a hearing was scheduled for July 24, but it was always likely that the sides would come to an agreement before then. The Lightning haven’t had a player go to arbitration since 2007.
