Caps Qualify Five
The Capitals today issued qualifying contract offers to defensemen Mike Green and Shaone Morrisonn and forwards Eric Fehr, Boyd Gordon and Brooks Laich. The offers allow Washington to retain exclusive negotiating rights with these players even beyond July 1, when the five would gain restricted free agent (RFA) status if they have not yet come to terms with the team.
Washington did not tender qualifying offers to defenseman Jamie Hunt and forward Stephen Werner, making both players unrestricted free agents (UFA).
June 25, 2008 at 11:02 pm
This makes perfect sense, and I expect that all five of the qualified players will be back in DC come fall. I suspect Fehr will take the QO (unless it is really low) and the others, were presented with the QO’s as a formality and will all sign for more.
June 26, 2008 at 3:28 am
sucks about werner….i played against him once in high school…he scored 4 on me and had 5 assists. i knew he would go pro and the next year he was up in canada. when the caps signed him i was really excited to see someone i played against in a caps jersey…best of luck to him
June 26, 2008 at 9:46 am
This is good news, but when will we hear anything regarding Federov & Huet?
June 27, 2008 at 12:36 pm
MD – We’ll hear something when they’re signed or when they go their own way. In negotiations, no news usually means progress is being made. When one side or the other goes to the media, then there are problems…