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ECHL Norfolk Admirals

Admirals Sign Two and Offer Five for 2015-16

July 2, 2015 - ECHL (ECHL)
Norfolk Admirals News Release


NORFOLK, Va. - The Norfolk Admirals announce today that the team has signed centers Nick MacNeil and Chase Schaber and also made qualifying offers to five players for the 2015-16 season.

Nick MacNeil and Chase Schaber agreed to terms with the Admirals for the upcoming season, joining Kain Allicock and Alex Lepkowski who were traded from Missouri yesterday.

MacNeil, 26, concluded his second season as a professional with 12 goals and 14 assists for Bakersfield in 45 games. The 6-foot-4, 211-pound center pitched in a pair of markers and helped on four more in the first nine games of his pro career in 2013-14. Hailing from Creignish, Nova Scotia, MacNeil wrapped up a four-year career at the University of New Brunswick after notching 40 goals and 87 points across 104 games.

Schaber, 24, enters his third professional season on the heels of a 64-game campaign that included 51 appearances for Bakersfield and 13 for the AHL's Oklahoma City Barons. Schaber scored once while with the Barons, but posted 15 goals and 33 points for the Condors. Over 126 career games in the ECHL, the 6-foot, 194-pound Red Deer, Alberta local has 35 goals and 44 assists.

In addition to the five players signed for 2015-16, Norfolk extended qualifying offers to:

RW - Luke Judson

LW - Jordan Kremyr

D - Brendon Nash

D - Gabriel Verpaelst

RW - Francis Verreault-Paul

Each team is entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans. A veteran is classified as a player with 260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2015-16 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 with more than 180 regular season games played, will retain the rights to that player until Aug. 1. After Aug. 1, if the veteran player is not signed to a contract by the team, the player 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.

Norfolk Admirals 10-pack tickets for the 2015-16 season are now on sale and start at $125. Visit the Admirals Administrative Office at Scope or click on the 'Tickets' tab at NorfolkAdmirals.com to purchase. Season tickets are available for purchase as well and begin at $400. Call 757-640-1212 for more information.

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