East Coast Hockey League Releases List of Players With Qualifying Offers

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MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - PRINCETON, N.J. – The ECHL on Thursday released the list of players who received a valid qualifying offer from ECHL teams by the July 1 deadline.
Players who had already signed a contract by July 1 did not need to receive a qualifying offer.
Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four could be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2008-09 season). Players on open qualifying offers can not be traded.
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, 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.
Teams are not allowed to sign more than 24 players to contracts during the summer.
ECHL Qualifying Offers List
ALASKA ACES
Kimbi Daniels
Olivier Filion
Derek Gustafson
Joey Hope
Michael Lambert
Peter Metcalf
Eric Neilson
Matt Robinson
AUGUSTA LYNX
Matt Auffrey
Anthony Battaglia
Chris Brooks
Travis Fuller
John Laliberte
Ken Scuderi
Aaron Slattengren
Chase Watson
BAKERSFIELD CONDORS
Mark Derlago
Jason Goulet
Chris Kaufman
Tim Konsorada
Jay Langager
CHARLOTTE CHECKERS
Chris Capraro
Trevor Frischmon
Jeff Kyrzakos
Ryan Murphy
Jared Nightingale
Colin Sinclair
Mark Smith
Matt Waddell
CINCINNATI CYCLONES
Jean-Michel Daoust
Barret Ehgoetz
Billy Irish-Baker
T.J. McElroy
Matt Macdonald
Sean Perkins
Scott Reynolds
Matt Syroczynski
DAYTON BOMBERS
Bobby Chaumont
Chris Eade
Chanse Fitzpatrick
Peter Flache
Grant Goeckner-Zoeller
Ryan MacGregor
Ryan Reid
Yannick Tifu
ELMIRA JACKALS
Benoit Doucet
Pierre-Luc Faubert
Luke Fritshaw
Matt Gens
Adam Henrich
Elgin Reid
Bobby Robins
Kevin Ulanski
FLORIDA EVERBLADES
Preston Callander
Steve Czech
Derek Damon
Brad Herauf
Brett Peterson
Brad Zancanaro
FRESNO FALCONS
Spencer Carbery
Oren Eizenman
Louis-Philippe Lachance
Stuart MacRae
Brian O'Hanley
Matt Quinn
Matt Stefanishion
Joe Van Culin
GWINNETT GLADIATORS
Jeff Campbell
Lou Dickenson
Jim Jackson
Craig Kowalski
Jeff Mason
Jamie Milam
Brad Schell
Jon Sitko
IDAHO STEELHEADS
Mark Bomersback
Kellen Briggs
Craig Cescon
Taggart Desmet
Greg Rallo
Brent Shepheard
Mike Sullivan
JOHNSTOWN CHIEFS
Justin Coutu
Brian Deeth
Greg Gallagher
Ryan Garlock
Alexandre Imbeault
Mike Knight
Andrew Martens
Vincent Zaore
LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS
Gerry Burke
Kelly Czuy
Justin Donati
Curtis Fraser
Jason Krischuk
Mike Madill
Gerard Miller
Marco Peluso
MISSISSIPPI SEA WOLVES
Jason Beeman
Andy Contois
Gio Flamminio
Mark Hurtubise
Bill LeClerc
Kyle McAllister
Brandon Scero
ONTARIO REIGN
John Adams
Brandon Benedict
Scott Champagne
Michael Grenzy
Corey LeClair
David Schulz
Max Taylor
Kris Tebbs
PHOENIX ROADRUNNERS
Matt Carter
Rob Dmytruk
Gino Guyer
Dave McKee
Mathieu Melanson
Bryan Nathe
Sean O'Connor
Tom Sawatske
READING ROYALS
Chris Blight
Shawn Collymore
Bracken Kearns
Charlie Kronschnabel
Mike Salekin
Kevin Saurette
Kevin Schaeffer
Joe Zappala
SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS
Chris Chaput
Matt Smith
Paul McIlveen
Marc Busenburg
Mike Gabinet
STOCKTON THUNDER
Tim Boron
Adam Huxley
Brian Lee
Luke Lynes
Ryan MacMurchy
Lance Monych
Brandon Schwartz
TRENTON DEVILS
Eric Castonguay
Luke Fulghum
Ryan Gunderson
Thomas Harrison
Maxime Ouellet
Jay Pemberton
Colin Pepperall
Stephen Wood
UTAH GRIZZLIES
Ryan Cruthers
Ryan Kinasewich
Evan Kotsopoulos
Nathan Lawson
Sean Offers
Travis Rycroft
James Sanford
Andy Sertich
VICTORIA SALMON KINGS
Taylor Christie
Jacob Dietrich
Gary Gladue
Ash Goldie
Derek Krestanovich
Brady Leavold
Billy Thompson
WHEELING NAILERS
Sean Berkstresser
Julien Brouillette
Sean Collins
Curtis Darling
Tyson Marsh
Steve McJannet
Chris Snavely
Todd Spencer
ECHL
The ECHL celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
The Premier ‘AA’ Hockey League began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league that will play with 23 teams in 16 states and British Columbia in 2008-09.
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the NHL in 2007-08, marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
There have been 355 former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in the ECHL, including 99 in the last three seasons. There have been 210 former ECHL players who have played their first game in the NHL in the past seven seasons.
There are 15 coaches in the NHL who have ECHL experience including former Mississippi and current Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau, who is the 2007-08 winner of the NHL Coach of the Year award, and former Wheeling coach Peter Laviolette, who is head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes.
The ECHL is represented for the eighth consecutive year on the National Hockey League championship team in 2008 with Detroit Red Wings forward Aaron Downey.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League in 2007-08 and for the past 19 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup champion.
In the last six seasons the ECHL has had more call ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined with over 2,300 call ups involving more than 1,200 players. In each of the last three seasons there have been more than 225 players who have played in both the ECHL and the AHL in the same season.
Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.