Gulls announce season-ending roster

Published on June 9, 2005 under ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


SAN DIEGO — San Diego Gulls head coach Martin St. Amour announced Thursday the season-ending roster, which includes 19 players.

ECHL season-ending rosters may include up to 20 players and cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2004-05 (i.e. players who were under contract to teams in either the National Hockey League or the American Hockey League).

The Gulls are entitled to reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from their list of 19 by extending a qualifying offer no later than July 1. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the 2005-06 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded. Teams are not required to extend a qualifying offer to players who sign a contract prior to July 1.

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, he 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 Gulls' season-ending roster contains 19 players, four of which will have veteran status in 2005-06 (260-or-more regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of next season).

Max Birbraer (LW) – Veteran
Darren Clark (C) – Veteran
Nicolas Corbeil (RW)
Brett Draney (LW)
Chet Ferreira (D)
Aaron Forsythe (D)
Guillaume Fournier (RW)
Nick Ganga (C)
David Karpa (D) – Veteran
Nikita Korovkin (D)
Simon Lajeunesse (G)
Brett Lutes (LW)*
Chris Lynch (RW)
Grady Moore (D)
Yuri Moscevsky (F)
Sean Murphy (D)
Sean O'Connor (RW)
Wes Rypien (LW)
Jonathon Shockey (D) – Veteran

*Lutes was acquired as the future considerations in the deal that sent Sylvain Deschatelets to the Bakersfield Condors on March 22.

The Gulls begin their third ECHL season in October. For information on season ticket packages and benefits, contact 619-224-GOAL ext 7.

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