ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Submit Qualifying Offers to Eight Players

Rules of Qualifying Offers

Players who had already signed a contract by July 7 did not need to receive a qualifying offer.

Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until 11:59 p.m. ET on July 22 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 Player shall retain the rights to that qualified player for one playing season. Any Player who has played in more than 190 professional regular-season games is ineligible to receive a Qualifying Offer.

All regular-season games played in any of the following leagues shall count towards a Player’s Rookie/Veteran and Qualifying Offer status.

North America – National Hockey League, American Hockey League, ECHL, Central Hockey League (Defunct, but games played count toward veteran status)
Europe – Czech Extraliga (Czech Republic), Liiga (Finland), DEL (Germany), KHL (Russia), Slovak Extraliga (Slovakia), SHL (Sweden), National League (Switzerland)

Players Who Received Qualifying Offers

Daniel Amesbury (F)

Dan Ebrahim (F)

Brian Carrabes (F)

Jacob Slipec (F)

Odeen Tufto (F)

Jimmy Dowd (F)

Henry Welsch (G)

Who’s Expected Back Season For the Adirondack Thunder

The Utica Comets have been stockpiling forwards, with a couple of names expected to find their way down to Glens Falls. With that being said, I find it hard to see Jacob Slipec and Daniel Amesbury sniffing Adirondack’s roster next season. Dan Ebrahim and Brian Carrabes have both been key pieces of the Thunder of the past two seasons, and it will be interesting to see where and how they fit into Adirondack’s plans for next season.

Henry Welsch is going to be an interesting case, especially with Utica signing Seth Eisle, who I expect to split the net with Jeremy Brodeur next season. Welsch played in just one game with Adirondack last season.