SAN JOSE — The Sharks issued qualifying offers to restricted free agent forwards Timo Meier, Kevin Labanc and Dylan Gambrell but not to defenseman Joakim Ryan, who now becomes an unrestricted free agent.
NHL teams had until Tuesday at 2 p.m. (PDT) to issue qualifying offers to RFAs and retain their negotiating rights. Other players to receive qualifying offers were forwards Maxim Letunov and Antti Suomela and defensemen Nick DeSimone and Kyle Wood.
Other players who were not qualified were forwards Rourke Chartier, Jon Martin and Alex Schoenborn and defensemen Cody Donaghey, Cavan Fitzgerald and Michael Brodzinski.