Jacob Trouba was awarded a one-year, $5.5 million contract by an arbitrator Sunday.
The Winnipeg Jets defenseman, who was a restricted free agent, had an arbitration hearing in Toronto on Friday and the arbitrator had a 48-hour deadline to render a decision.
Trouba, 24, had 24 points (three goals, 21 assists) in 55 games last season. He missed 20 games from Jan. 30-March 13 with a lower-body injury and five games from March 20-29 with an upper-body injury.
Trouba sat out the first 15 games of the 2016-17 season and made a request to be traded before he signed a two-year contract with an average annual value of $3 million on Nov. 7, 2016. It expired July 1.
He was Winnipeg's first-round pick (No. 9) in the 2012 NHL Draft and has 129 points (34 goals, 95 assists) in 326 NHL games.
Winnipeg (52-20-10) had a franchise-record 114 points last season, finished second in the Central Division and NHL behind the Nashville Predators, and reached the Western Conference Final, which it lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in five games.
The Jets have hearings remaining with forward Brandon Tanev (July 25) and forward Marko Dano (July 30).
"We've got a lot of work ahead of us, whether it's in the RFA market here right now or obviously in the future," general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff told NHL.com on July 12.
Trouba was one of 23 NHL players with a hearing that remains scheduled.
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