It’s one of many deadline days, the day that Group 2 (restricted) free agents are due their qualifying offers, which retain their rights. From a Bridgeport standpoint, the important non-qualified players are James Wright and Justin Vaive, as Arthur Staple first reported. The Islanders gave QOs to their other restricted free agents, including Christopher Gibson, Alan Quine and Scott Mayfield. They also qualified Kirill Petrov to keep his rights.
Including the remaining restricted free agents (but not Petrov), the Islanders have 40 contracts committed to players (six of them RFAs, 34 of them signed), though three of them likely won’t count when the player returns to junior.
Edit, 5 p.m.: Aaron Portzline reports that Westport’s Michael Paliotta hasn’t been tendered, so he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Edit, 5:30 p.m.: Off the press release from Stockton, no qualifying offer from Calgary for Kevin Poulin or a couple of their local-college guys.
A good reminder from Andrew Gross that no QO doesn’t mean no interest. The nontendered can re-sign with their original team.
Edit, 6:15: Dan Weiss notes that Taylor Beck is among those nontendered in Colorado.
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We’ll try to keep up with the Chicken Tenders today and this week, though other projects will likely distract us pretty strongly. Others seemed excited about tracking them, so we’ll perhaps toss up a link or two.
ANA–Brandon Pirri
BOS–Ben Sexton, Brett Connolly, Landon Ferraro
BUF–LW Alex Guptill, LW Jack Nevins, G Nathan Lieuwen, C Colin Jacobs, G Andrey Makarov
CAL–LW Ken Agostino, C Bill Arnold, C Joe Colborne, LW Turner Elson, C Josh Jooris, G Joni Ortio, G Kevin Poulin, C Drew Shore, LW Bryce Van Brabant
COL–Brandon Gormley, Joey Hishon, Dennis Everberg, Taylor Beck, Borna Rendulic, Roman Will, Sami Aitokallio, Garrett Meurs, Trevor Cheek, Gabriel Beaupre
CLB–C Michael Chaput, D Michael Paliotta
DAL–Troy Vance, Taylor Peters, Emil Molin
EDM–Luke Gazdic, Adam Clendening, Kale Kessy and Niklas Lundstrom
FLA–F Quinton Howden, F Greg McKegg, D Dylan Olsen, F John McFarland
LA–Patrik Bartosak, Maxim Kitsyn, Alex Roach
MIN–RW Brett Bulmer, LW Raphael Bussieres, G Brody Hoffman, C Jared Knight, RW Scott Sabourin.
MON–Lucas Lessio, Darren Dietz, Michael Bournival
NJ–Beau Bennett, Raman Hrabarenka, Jon Merrill, Devante Smith-Pelley
NYI–LW Justin Vaive, C James Wright
NYR–Luke Adam, Michael St. Croix, Chris McCarthy, Josh Nichols, Mike Kantor, Sam Noreau
OTT–Patrick Wiercioch, Travis Ewanyk, Jerome Leduc, Troy Rutkowski
PHX–Jarred Tinordi, Klas Dahlbeck, Kevin Connauton
STL (comparing this to this)–C Zack Phillips, LW Yannick Veilleux, C Ryan Tesink, D Richard Nedomiel, RW Cody Beach
SJ–Jeremy Morin, Chris Crane, Petter Emanuelsson, Jeremy Langlois, Joel Rumpel
TB–David Broll.
VAN–Linden Vey
WAS–Michael Latta
WIN–Austen Brassard