Chicken Tenders '10

This is our annual exercise in stupidity/futility (since we’ll find them out soon enough), but just to compile: Players who reportedly will not be tendered a qualifying offer or whose contract has been bought out (‘B’ denotes buyout):

ANA–Bobby Bolt, Shawn Weller, J.P. Levasseur

BOS–Daniel Paille, Kevin Regan

BUF–Mike Kostka, Matt Generous

CAL (unconfirmed, coupled with CapGeek)–Brad Cole

CLB–Kevin Lalande, Dan LaCosta, Andrei Plekhanov, Jordan Smotherman

DAL — Tyler Shelast

EDM (unconfirmed, coupled with CapGeek)–Bryan Lerg, Marc-Andre Pouliot, Viacheslav Trukhno, Josef Hrabal, Geoff Paukovich, Ryan Potulny

FLA — Pete Aston, Luke Beaverson, Dan Collins, Andrew Sweetland, Nick Tarnasky

MIN — Jamie Fraser, Morten Madsen

MON — Georges Laraque (B)

NJD–Brad Snetsinger, Myles Stoesz

NYI — Sean Bentivoglio, Sean Bergenheim, Jeff Tambellini

NYR–Enver Lisin

PIT–Aaron Boogaard, Jon D’Aversa

STL — (Thoroughly unconfirmed; assumes team’s qualified list is complete and CapGeek’s list is complete) Ben Bishop (still under contract), Joe Fallon, Nikolai Lemtugov, Alexander Hellstrom, Pierre-Cedric Labrie

SJS–Matt Jones, Daniel Rahimi, Michael Vernace

TB — Chris Lawrence, Lauri Tukonen, Radek Smolenak

TOR–Matt Jones, John Mitchell, Phil Oreskovic

We’ll add on the fly; point ’em out if you see ’em. Was otherwise occupied this week and probably should be next week — aw, always looking for something to do on break in Cromwell — so I’ll need all the help I can get. BTW, per the CBA, qualifying offers aren’t due until Monday, June 28, at 5 p.m.

Michael Fornabaio