Sea Wolves Release Protected List
June 3, 2004 - ECHL (ECHL)
Mississippi Sea Wolves News Release
BILOXI, Miss. â The Mississippi Sea Wolves of the ECHL announced today a protected list of 23 players for the 2004-05 season.
On Friday, May 28, each ECHL team submitted a list of players to which the individual team holds the rights.
The Sea Wolves players submitted for the ECHL protected list are:
Jack Baker
Anthony Battaglia
Jim Baxter
Nic Bilotto
Dwayne Blais
Chris Cava
Lucas Drake
Louis Dumont
Kerry Ellis-Toddington
John Evangelista
Brent Gauvreau
Jeff Hutchins
Jason Kean
Sergei Kuznetsov
Travis Lisabeth
Sean Matile
Roger Maxwell
Austin Miller
Steve O'Rourke
Andrew Proskurnicki
Patrick Rochon
Yannick Tremblay
Steffon Walby
By 3 p.m. ET on Friday, June 4, ECHL teams must submit their season-ending rosters of up to 20 players. Season-ending rosters may not include players who were under contract to teams in either the National Hockey League or the American Hockey League prior to the opening of the 2003-04 ECHL season.
Teams will be able to protect up to eight players by extending a qualifying offer no later than July 1. Players will have until August 1 to accept a qualifying offer. Teams are not required to protect players who have signed a contract prior to July 1. No more than four of the players protected can be veterans (players who have played in more than 288 professional games). Players who are not signed or protected by July 1 will become unrestricted free agents.
A non-veteran player that does not accept the qualifying offer will have his rights retained by the extending team for one full playing season. If a player who has received a qualifying offer elects to sign with the team after August 1, the original qualifying offer is null and void and the team may sign the player for any amount they agree upon. If a veteran player turns down a team's qualifying offer and is offered a contract by another ECHL team, the original team will have until August 31 to match the offer. A veteran player who chooses not to accept a qualifying offer and who does sign an offer sheet will become an unrestricted free agent on September 1.
A $25 deposit will reserve your 2004-05 Sea Wolves season tickets by calling (228) 275-WOLF. Season seats start at just $8.05 per game for adults and $6.11 for children 12 and under. Sponsorship opportunities are available by calling (228) 388-6151.
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