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FTB: All 68 Non-Qualified Free Agents

5pm yesterday evening (about six hundred hours into the second day of the NHL Draft), teams were required to provide the list of players they have sent a qualifying offer to in order to retain their RFA rights. This is a thing that happens every year, but with the COVID-19 pandemic drying up the vaults on so many teams and forcing the cap ceiling to remain at $81.5 million, more players than usual have been essentially cut rather than getting the natural pay raise a qualifying offer would provide.

There are 68 players this offseason that were not tendered qualifying offers, here is the full list.