Norfolk Admirals Add Vipers Alumni Hetnik To Teams Season Ending Roster:

The East Coast Hockey League announced their Season-Ending Rosters as submitted by each of its member teams. The Norfolk Admirals have twenty players listed on their Season-Ending Rosters list, one is former Vernon Vipers defenceman Marc Hetnik.

Hetnik finished his fourth and final season with the UMass Minutemen last season before signing his first professional contract as a College free agent with the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) Norfolk Admirals March 9th 2017.

Hetnik picked up one assist in five games with the Admirals last year, played two seasons in Vernon (2011-2013). In 112 regular season games with the Vipers Hetnik collected (6-goals-22-assists-28-points).

Marc Hetnik's Player Profile:

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=128531

This was posted on the Admirals website:

Admirals Share Season-Ending Roster

June 21, 2017/in Press Releases /by Norfolk Admirals

NORFOLK, VA. – The ECHL has announced the Season-Ending Rosters as submitted by each of its Member Teams on Monday.

The Admirals roster contains 20 players:

Goaltenders:

Brett Kilar

Defensemen:

Jordan Abt
Paul Cianfrini
Alex Pompeo
Marc Hetnik
Tim Daly
Kyle Pereira

Forwards:

Domenic Alberga
Paul Rodrigues
John Dunbar
Scott Jacklin
Ben Murphy
Trevor Gerling
Brady Vail
John Kurtz
Trevor Mingoia
Cason Hohmann
Angelo Miceli
Erik Bradford
Steven Whitney

Season-Ending Rosters may include up to 20 players. Season-Ending Rosters cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2016-17.

Each team is entitled to reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from the list of 20 by extending a qualifying offer no later than June 30. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the 2017-18 Season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded. Teams are not required to extend a qualifying offer to players who sign a contract prior to June 30.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until Aug. 1 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 Aug. 1. After Aug. 1, if the veteran player or goaltender is not signed to a contract by the team, the veteran or goaltender 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. 31, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent.