Aces Extend Qualifying Offers

July 1, 2013 - ECHL (ECHL)
Alaska Aces News Release


The Alaska Aces have submitted qualifying offers to eight different players for the 2013-2014 season, the club announced Monday. The eight players who received offers now remain restricted free agents of the Aces. The Alaska Aces will begin the 2013-2014 season at home on Friday, October 18 at Sullivan Arena when they host the San Francisco Bulls. Season ticket and sponsorship packages are currently available through the Aces office at 15th & Gambell. For more information, please call the Aces at 907.258.ACES or visit them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/alaskaaceshockey.

Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players before the end of June. 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 2013-14 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded. Any players who had already signed a contract by June 30 did not need to receive a qualifying offer.

The Aces extended qualifying offers to the following players: Dustin Molle, Corey Syvret, William Wrenn, Zach Harrison, Tommy Mele, Garry Nunn, Andy Taranto, Evan Trupp.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until August 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 August 1. After August 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 August 31, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent. The Aces did not submit any qualifying offers to veterans



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