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Wednesday, July 8th

Bison Announce Qualifying Offers

Bison Announce Qualifying Offers

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Head Coach and VP of Hockey Operations Phillip Barski announced today that the Bloomington Bison have issued qualifying offers to seven players, including five forwards, one defenseman and one goaltender.

FORWARDS: Bryce Brodzinski, Daniel Tedesco, Mark Kaleinikovas, Chongmin Lee, Nick Deakin-Poot

DEFENSEMAN: Parker Gavlas

GOALTENDER: Dryden McKay

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)


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