Winnipeg Jets submit qualifying offers to 5 pending restricted free agents – Winnipeg

The deadline for NHL teams to submit qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents was 4 p.m. CT, and the Winnipeg Jets made sure the likes of Cole Perfetti, David Gustafsson, Ville Heinola, Logan Stanley and Simon Lundmark all remained with the organization.

All restricted free agent players who do not receive a qualifying offer by the deadline will officially become free agents when the market opens at 11:00 AM CT on July 1. And for the Jets, that would be defenseman Artemi Kniazev and goalie Oskari Salminen. Both players spent all of last season with the AHL Manitoba Moose.

Of the group of players who qualified, only Stanley and Gustafsson were eligible for arbitration. They could decline the team’s offer by electing to have their contracts settled through a third party in an arbitration hearing.

In most scenarios like this, the two parties usually reach an agreement before the hearing.