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Solar Bears extend qualifying offers for 2021-22 season

Monday, July 26th
Solar Bears extend qualifying offers for 2021-22 season

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Solar Bears have issued qualifying offers to eight players for the 2021-22 season. The list of players who have received qualifying offers is as follows: 

FORWARDS: Tristin Langan, Chris LeBlanc, Aaron Luchuk, J.J. Piccinich, Fabrizio Ricci, Riley Woods 

DEFENSEMEN: Mark Auk, Tim Shoup 

Players who had already signed a contract by July 23 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 2021-22 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.  The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until August 9 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, or to a goaltender who has played more than 180 regular-season games, will retain the rights to that player until August. After August 9, if the veteran player or goaltender is not signed to a contract by the team, the player 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 16, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent. 

Get your seats for the Lightning preseason game:

The defending Stanley Cup champs will call Orlando home for one night only - secure your seats to the Tampa Bay Lightning preseason game on October 5 at Amway Center when you purchase a Solar Bears Season Ticket Membership today. Lock in your seats for the 2021-22 season and the NHL preseason match with a full or half-season membership - with plans starting as low as $314 a seat! Visit orlandosolarbearshockey.com/seasontickets for more information.

About the Orlando Solar Bears:

The Solar Bears are members of the ECHL, the premier “AA” hockey league in North America, and have qualified for the Kelly Cup Playoffs in five of nine seasons. The Solar Bears are owned and operated by the Orlando Magic and the DeVos Family, and play at the AdventHealth Rink at Amway Center, the 2012 Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal Sports Facility of the Year.

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