So if Lindsey is arbitration eligible than if NYR really gets pissy with trouba they will be eligible for a second buyout window?!
If Lindgren elects arbitration, or the team elects to take him to arbitration, we will get a 2nd buyout window after the settlement of that arbitration case. Settlement can mean the Rangers and Lindgren signed a contract before the case was heard, or it went to a hearing and an arbitration award was given.
AFAIK, electing arbitration and then trading him before it is settled (if that's even allowed, I'm not sure), would not constitute settling the case, and therefore not trigger the 2nd buyout window.
Lindgren is the only arbitration eligible RFA we have, so if the plan is to buy out Trouba, signing Lindgren is probably the only way to get it done. That doesn't rule out the possibility that we trade Lindgren after we sign him, but that seems unlikely.