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Flames qualify eight RFAs, cut loose five players

The Calgary Flames have announced their qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents. Eight pending RFAs received offers: David Rittich, Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Bennett, Andrew Mangiapane, Alan Quine, Spencer Foo, Ryan Lomberg and Rinat Valiev. Five others were not given offers and become unrestricted free agents: Curtis Lazar, Brett Pollock, Kerby Rychel, Josh Healey and Mason McDonald.

#Flames have extended qualifying offers to: Rittich, Tkachuk, Bennett, Mangiapane, Quine, Foo, Lomberg, and Valiev.

Not qualified: Lazar, Pollock, Rychel, Healey, McDonald. Players not receiving QO’s are now unrestricted free agents.

— Pat Steinberg (@Fan960Steinberg) June 25, 2019

The qualified players are no big surprises.