Winnipeg Jets make qualifying offers to 4 players, 4 others become unrestricted free agents

The Winnipeg Jets prolonged qualifying offers to 4 of their eight pending restricted free agents to retain their rights.

 

 

 

 

Monday was the deadline for NHL groups to make qualifying offers to eligible gamers, and ahead Andrew Copp, together with defencemen Neal Pionk, Logan Stanley, and Johnathan Kovacevic all acquired offers from the Jets.

 

 

 

The Jets didn’t make qualifying offers to restricted free agent forwards Marko Dano and Skyler McKenzie, together with defenceman Luke Green, and goalie Cole Kehler, and so they all become unrestricted free agents as of Wednesday.

Dano, 26, had two totally different stints with the Jets group, however solely performed for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose final season. He appeared in simply 13 video games the place he scored one objective with two assists. He was initially acquired within the Andrew Ladd commerce in the course of the 2015-2016 season.

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McKenzie, 23, performed 131 video games for the Moose over three seasons after the Jets chosen him within the seventh spherical, 208th general within the 2017 NHL Draft.

Green, 23, battled accidents for a lot of his time with the group. The defenceman didn’t play a single sport for the Moose final season and suited up for simply 28 AHL video games over the previous 4 campaigns. He was the Jets third spherical choose in 2016.

The 23-year-old Kehler, who hails from Winkler, signed a one-year contract with the Jets again in April, and went 2-1 in three AHL video games with the Moose.

All 4 gamers are nonetheless eligible to re-sign with the Jets as free agents.

The 27-year-old Copp earned $2.28 million in his sixth season with the Jets and is due for a increase after finishing his two-year contract.

Pionk can be coming off a two-year deal that paid him a median of $3 million per season.

Copp, Pionk, and Kovacevic are all eligible to file for wage arbitration if they will’t work out a deal to their liking with the Jets.