Eight Receive Qualifying Offers
Published on July 1, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL)
Florida Everblades News Release
ESTERO, FL - The Florida Everblades, primary affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League and Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League, announced today that the team has extended qualifying offers to eight players for the 2009-10 season. The Blades presented contract offers to the following players: Milan Gijac (RW), Ryan Lang (LW), Steve McJannet (LW), Patrick Bordeleau (LW), Alex Parent (C), Brad Herauf (LW), Dominic D'Amour (D), and Michael Grenzy (D).
Teams were not required to protect players who signed a Standard Players Contract prior to July 1. Players that were not signed by July 1 or extended a qualifying offer by July 1 became unrestricted free agents. Each team was entitled to reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from the season ending roster list of 20.
Of these eight (8) Qualified Players, no more than four (4) of the Qualified Players shall be Veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2009-10 season). Players will have until August 1 to accept a qualifying offer. Players on open Qualifying Offers cannot be traded.
Teams are not allowed to sign more than 24 players to contracts during the summer.
A team extending a valid Qualifying Offer to a Veteran retains the Rights to that Veteran until August 1. After August 1, if the Veteran is not signed to a Standard Player Contract by the team, the Veteran shall be deemed a Restricted Free Agent and shall be entitled to seek and secure offers of employment from other teams. Restricted Free Agents may not be traded.
When a Restricted Free Agent receives an offer to sign a Standard Player Contract from an Offering team other than the team with Rights and the Restricted Free Agent desires to accept the Offer, the Restricted Free Agent and the Offering team must, within 24 hours, deliver a completed Offer Sheet to the team with Rights, the League office and the PHPA. The Member with Rights shall then have seven (7) days after the date it receives the Offer Sheet to exercise its right to match. The Right to Match shall expire seven (7) days from the date the Offer Sheet was received but not counting the day of receipt.
If a Restricted Free Agent is not signed to either an Offer Sheet or a Standard Player Contract by a team by August 31, he shall be deemed an Unrestricted Free Agent.
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