Jacob Trouba and the Winnipeg Jets had an arbitration hearing Friday, the Winnipeg Sun reported.
The 24-year-old defenseman 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.
The arbitrator has 48 hours to render a decision. Trouba and the Jets can agree to a contract before the ruling is given.
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 Knight in five games.
Trouba was one of three Jets restricted free agents with an arbitration hearing pending, joining Brandon Tanev (July 25) and 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," Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff told NHL.com on July 12.
Trouba is one of 23 NHL players with a hearing that remains scheduled.
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