RoadRunners Release Season-Ending Roster
June 8, 2006 - ECHL (ECHL)
Phoenix RoadRunners News Release
PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Phoenix RoadRunners of the ECHL have released their season-ending roster from the completed 2005-06 campaign.
The RoadRunners season-ending roster includes the maximum-allowed 20 players. Season-ending rosters cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2005-06 (i.e. players who were under contract to teams in either the National Hockey League or the American Hockey League.
The RoadRunners season-ending roster includes forwards Justin Aikins, Jesse Bennefield, Dave Bonk, Garett Cameron, Nick Ganga, Colt King, Adam Kostichka, Miguel Lafleche, Jonathan Lehun, Patrick Levesque, Mike Ouellet, Cory Pecker, Justin Quenneville, Jake Riddle, Shawn Snider, and Kevin Ulanski; defensemen Paul Ballantyne, Nikita Korovkin, and Brad Woods; and goaltender Ryan Cyr.
Each team is entitled to reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from the list of 20 by extending a qualifying offer not 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 2006-07 season). Players on open qualifying offers can not 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 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 RoadRunners return to the ice at US Airways Center in October 2006. Information on season tickets, half-season packages, and flex plans are available by calling (602) 462-GOAL.
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