Walleye Extend Qualifying Offers to Eight Players
July 2, 2012 - International League (IL1)
Toledo Mud Hens News Release
(TOLEDO, OH) - The Toledo Walleye and Head Coach Nick Vitucci have announced that the Toledo Walleye have extended qualifying offers to eight players. The details on qualifying offers are listed below.
The forwards on the list are: Joey Martin, Todd Griffith and Nick Oslund.
The defensemen listed are: Kyle Page, Paul Cianfrini, Joey Ryan, Cody Lampl and Matt Krug.
"This allows us to retain their rights as players and we are hopeful to continue this process and sign some of them for the 2012/13 Walleye season," says Nick Vitucci.
Each team is entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. 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 upcoming 2012-13 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.
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 Toledo Walleye will open the 2012-13 regular season on Saturday, October 13 at home against the Kalamazoo Wings. 2012-13 Game Plans are on sale now online at www.toledowalleye.com, or by phone at (419) 725-9255.
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