Gladiators Extend Qualifying Offers to Seven Players
July 2, 2012 - ECHL (ECHL)
Atlanta Gladiators News Release
The Gwinnett Gladiators have extended qualifying offers to seven players for the 2012-2013 season. Gwinnett qualified the following seven players: Dallas Jackson, Cody Brookwell, Joey Haddad, Tyler Murovich, Evan Rankin, Chris Clackson and Bryan Brutlag.
Jackson led all Gladiators defensemen in scoring in the 2012-13 season. He earned 29 points (seven goals, 22 assists) in 62 games last season with Gwinnett. Jackson earned two call-ups to the American Hockey League where he earned one assist in five games between Lake Erie and Bridgeport.
Brookwell completed his second professional season with Gwinnett last year. He had a career best 15 points (four goals, 11 assists) in 63 games with the Gladiators. Brookwell notched seven points (two goals, five assists) in 48 games with the Gladiators in his rookie campaign in 2010-11.
Haddad split time last year between the Gladiators and the AHL. he notched 35 points (17 goals, 18 assists) in 43 games with the Gladiators. He had one goal in 11 games with Hamilton of the AHL and skated in eight games with Bridgeport of the AHL last season.
Murovich finished third in scoring on the Gladiators last season. He tallied 47 points (16 goals, 31 assists) in 71 games for the Gladiators last season. In his rookie campaign in 2010-11, Murovich split time with four different clubs in the ECHL and the AHL. He earned 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) in 34 ECHL games with Reading and Wheeling and had four points (two goals, two assists) in 27 AHL games with Springfield and Wilkes-Barre.
Gwinnett acquired the rights to Rankin in a three way deal from the Toledo Walleye via Utah on January 19th. In 15 games with Toledo last season, Rankin notched 18 points off of 10 goals and eight assists. He also earned 29 points (15 goals, 14 assists) in 35 AHL games with Rochester.
Chris Clackson split time between the Gladiators and the AHL with Houston and Rochester last season. He earned 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists) in 31 games with the Gladiators. With Rochester and Houston, Clackson posted one goal and one assist for two points in 29 AHL games.
Brutlag ranked first in scoring among Gwinnett rookies last season with 46 points (20 goals, 26 assists) in 65 games with Gwinnett. He was one of just two 20 or more goal scorers with the Gladiators last year. The Lakeville, Minnesota native skated in eight games with the eventual Calder Cup Champion Norfolk Admirals last season but did not register a point while in the AHL.
Players who had already signed a contract by July 1 did not need to receive a qualifying offer.
Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four could be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2012-13 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.
The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until Aug. 1 at which time the qualifying offer becomes null and void and the team may sign the qualified player to any salary or may elect to take no further action. Teams that extend a valid qualifying offer to a non-veteran player shall retain the rights to that qualified player for one playing season.
A team that extends a valid qualifying offer to a veteran player will retain the rights to that veteran until Aug. 1. After Aug. 1, if the veteran player is not signed to a 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 ECHL teams. Restricted free agents may not be traded. When a restricted free agent receives a contract offer from a team other than the team with the player's rights and the restricted free agent wishes to accept the contract offer, the restricted free agent and the offering member must, within 24 hours, notify the ECHL, the team with the player's rights and the Professional Hockey Players' Association. The member with the player's rights shall have seven days after the date it is notified to exercise its right to match the contract offer.
If a restricted free agent is not signed to either an offer sheet or a contract by an ECHL team by Aug. 31, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent.
The Gladiators are the ECHL Affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres and the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League and are members of the ECHL, the Premier "AA" Hockey League and play all home games at the 11,355-seat Arena at Gwinnett Center, located just off I-85 on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.
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