Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Brampton Beast Give Former Vernon Viper Marino Qualifying Offer:

The East Coast Hockey League tendered qualifying offers as submitted by each of its member teams. The ECHL Fort Wayne Komets have seven players that been tendered qualifying offers, one is former Vernon Vipers forward Brandon Marino. 

Marino split last season with the American Hockey League Syracuse Crunch and East Coast Hockey League Brampton Beast. Marino will be entering his fourth season with the Beast. In 72 games last year with Brampton Marino picked up (20-goals-42-assists-62-points).  

After four years with Bemidji State University Marino has spent the past nine seasons playing in five different leagues (IHL, CHL, ECHL, AHL & EBEL) with six different teams (Quad City, Fort Wayne, Norfolk, Szekesfehervar, Utica & Brampton).

Marino played two games with the 2002-2003 Vernon Vipers.

Brandon Marino's Player Profile:


This was posted on the East Coast Hockey League website:

ECHL announces players with Qualifying Offers

July 2, 2018

The ECHL on Monday released the list of players who received a valid qualifying offer from ECHL teams by the June 30 deadline.

Players who had already signed a contract by June 30 did not need to receive a qualifying offer.

Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four could be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2018-19 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until July 16 at which time the qualifying offer becomes null and void and the team may sign the qualified player to any salary or may elect to take no further action. Teams that extend a valid qualifying offer to a non-veteran player shall retain the rights to that qualified player for one playing season.

A team that extends a valid qualifying offer to a veteran player, or to a goaltender who has played more than 180 regular-season games, will retain the rights to that player until July 16. After July 16, if the veteran player or goaltender is not signed to a contract by the team, the player shall be deemed a restricted free agent and shall be entitled to seek and secure offers of employment from other ECHL teams. Restricted free agents may not be traded. When a restricted free agent receives a contract offer from a team other than the team with the player’s rights and the restricted free agent wishes to accept the contract offer, the restricted free agent and the offering member must, within 24 hours, notify the ECHL, the team with the player’s rights and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association. The member with the player’s rights shall have seven days after the date it is notified to exercise its right to match the contract offer.

If a restricted free agent is not signed to either an offer sheet or a contract by an ECHL team by Aug. 1, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent.

Brampton Beast:

Luc-Olivier Blain, Erik Bradford, Willie Corrin, Matt Petgrave, Tyson Wilson, Reggie Traccitto, Brandon Marino

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