As expected — and mandated — the Colorado Avalanche made their qualifying offers to restricted free agents yesterday.
As a refresher, teams must make such an offer to restricted free agents in order to keep negotiating with them — the deadline was yesterday. The offer calculator is as follows:
- 110% of the base salary if the base salary is less than or equal to $660,000
- 105% of the base salary if the base salary is greater than $660,000 or less than $1,000,000. However, this qualifying offer cannot exceed $1,000,000.
- 100% of the base salary if the base salary is equal to or greater than $1,000,000.