ECHL Announces Players Receiving Qualifying Offers
July 1, 2013 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL on Monday released the list of players who received a valid qualifying offer from ECHL teams by the June 30 deadline.
Players who had already signed a contract by June 30 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 2013-14 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.
William Wrenn, Corey Syvret, Zach Harrison, Andy Taranto, Tommy Mele, Garry Nunn, Dustin Molle and Evan Trupp
Scott Freeman, Brian Stewart, Brett Lyon, Scott Greenham, Nicholas Tremblay, Erik Burgdoerfer, Francis Verreault and Brett Perlini
Trevor Lewis, Taylor Ellington, Cam Reid, Jared Gomes, Dan Eves and Michael Pelech
Collin Bowman, Adam Brown, Brock Nixon, Greg Gardner, Jack Combs, Chad Costello and Devin DiDiomete
Artem Demkov, Rob Bellamy, Jordon Southorn, Jordan Pietrus, Jean Bourbeau and Kyle Bushee
Aaron Gens, Matt Schepke, James Reid and Daniel Tetrault
Olivier Dame-Malka, Cody Reichard, Jesse Deckert, Adam Brace, Brayden Irwin and Leigh Salters
Daniel Maggio, John Dunbar, Jean-Michel Rizk, Jeremy Gates, Brandon Marino and Kaleigh Schrock
Shayne Wiebe, Bretton Cameron, Marc-Olivier Vallerand, Brandon Wong, Lee Baldwin, Mike Marcou, Bretton Stamler and Brendan Connolly
Alex Belzile, Sacha Guimond and Casey Pierro-Zabotel
Patrick Cullity, Tyler Gron, Austin Fyten, David de Kastrozza, Matt Case, Connor Goggin and Gord Baldwin
Wesley Myron, Kyle Page, Mike Matczak, Mitch Versteeg, Dustin Cloutier, John Armstrong, Nick Sirota and Joel Martin
Josh Lunden, Scott Campbell, Carlo Finucci, Adam Hughesman and Nolan Julseth-White
Jordan Hill, Vincent LoVerde, Cameron Burt, Chris Huxley, Mario Lamoureux, Kyle Kraemer, C.J. Stretch and Colton Yellow Horn
Ryan Donald, Scott Tanski, Mathew Sisca, Rob Mignardi, Mark Nemec, Mike Liambas, Nick McParland and John Curry
Evan Barlow, Dominic Jalbert, Denny Urban, Mark Mitera, Brock Shelgren, Adam Comrie, Kirk MacDonald and Drew MacIntyre
Mark Isherwood, Simon Danis-Pepin, Russ Sinkewich, Christain Ouellet, Jordan Morrison and Peter Sivak
Ryan Zapolski, Hunter Bishop, Tyler McNeely, Ryan Grimshaw, Brett Olson, Peter Boyd, Robby Dee and Chris Langkow
Matt Bergland, Tony DeHart, Nathan Deck, Ryan Hayes, Eric Hunter, Corey Trivino, Andrew Clark and Mike Little
Aaron Bogosian, Adam Hobson, Joey Martin, Travis Novak and Nathan Martine
Josh Burrows, Andrew Engelage, Jimmy Martin, Berkley Scott, Cody Carlson, Colin Vock, T.J. Battani and Jordan Clendenning
Peter Merth, Chris Barton, Zack Torquato, Adam Ross, Andrew Hotham, Peter Lenes, Chris Higgins and Paul Crowder
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