Sea Wolves Announce Season-Ending Roster
June 9, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL)
Mississippi Sea Wolves News Release
BILOXI, Miss. â Mississippi Sea Wolves general manager and coach Bob Woods announced today the season-ending roster, which consists of the following 19 players.
Anthony Battaglia (LW)
Bates Battaglia (LW) â Veteran
Darryl Campbell (LW)
Chris Cava (D)
Lucas Drake (LW)
Kerry Ellis-Toddington (D)
John Evangelista (C) â Veteran
Olivier Filion (C)
Stephen Greeley (C)
Nick Greenough (RW)
Jeff Hutchins (LW)
Mike Jarmuth (D)
Jay Legault (RW) â Veteran
Travis Lisabeth (RW) â Veteran
Mike Martone (D)
Milt Mastad (D) â Veteran
Austin Miller (D)
Randy Petruk (G)
Phil Sauve (G)
Season-ending rosters may include up to 20 players but cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contracts in 2004-05 (i.e. players who were under contract to teams in either the National Hockey League or the American Hockey League).
The following two players were not on the season-ending roster but can still be signed as free agents.
Louis Dumont, veteran center, had a contract that allows him to become a free agent at the end of each season.
Mike Garrow, defenseman, was under contract to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the AHL.
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 2005-06 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.
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