Chiefs Extend Qualifying Offers To Eight Players

Published on July 2, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL)
Johnstown Chiefs News Release


JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - The Johnstown Chiefs, ECHL affiliate of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and Columbus Blue Jackets, and the AHL's Lake Erie Monsters and Syracuse Crunch announced today that the team has extended qualifying offers to the following eight players: Jarrett Konkle, Ryan Del Monte, Andrew Sarauer, Andy Contois, Todd Griffith, Russ Sinkewich, R.J. Anderson, Alex Penner.

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 Member 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 Member, the Veteran shall be deemed a Restricted Free Agent and shall be entitled to seek and secure offers of employment from other Members. Restricted Free Agents may not be traded.

When a Restricted Free Agent receives an offer to sign a Standard Player Contract from an Offering Member other than the Member with Rights and the Restricted Free Agent desires to accept the Offer, the Restricted Free Agent and the Offering Member must, within 24 hours, deliver a completed Offer Sheet to the Member 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 Member by August 31, he shall be deemed an Unrestricted Free Agent.

2008-09 Season Statistics:

Name POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG Pt/G PIMPG

20 Jarrett Konkle LW 58 29 25 54 +3 34 12 3 0.93 0.59

16 Ryan Del Monte C 69 16 32 48 +19 81 1 0 0.70 1.17

24 Andrew Sarauer F 49 19 27 46 +10 71 6 2 0.94 1.45

26 Andy Contois LW 33 11 14 25 +1 34 3 1 0.76 1.03

13 Todd Griffith F 29 10 9 19 -3 97 3 0 0.66 3.34

3 Alex Penner F 38 2 2 4 +5 139 0 0 0.11 3.66

27 Russ Sinkewich D 16 0 1 1 -10 17 0 0 0.06 1.06

20 R.J. Anderson D 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0.00 2.00

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