The Tampa Bay Lightning have announced that they have extended qualifying offers to all of their players, except one. Adam Erne, Slater Koekkoek, J.T. Miller, and Cedric Paquette have all been giving a qualifying offer, meaning the Lightning will be able to retain them as RFA’s this summer. AHL tough guy Alex Gallant has not been offered a contract and will become a UFA on July 1st. [Tampa Bay Times]
Three days after Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said he hoped to re-sign all of the team’s restricted free agents, the team issued qualifying offers to all four players, including forwards J.