Royals Send Qualifying Offers to Eight Players

From Reading Royals

The Reading Royals, proud ECHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers and Lehigh Valley Phantoms, announced the team’s 2025 Qualifying Offers list. Reading issued qualifying offers to eight players at Sunday’s deadline, completing the ECHL rights protection process entering 2025-26.

The eight players issued qualifying offers by the Royals are:

• Forwards (5): Yvan Mongo, Patrick Moynihan, Joseph Nardi, Shane Sellar, and Jake Smith.
• Defensemen (2): Robert Calisti and Connor Walters.
• Goaltender (1): Vinnie Purpura.

Players who had already signed a contract by Monday, July 7, 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 2025-26 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until Tuesday, July 22, 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 Tuesday, July 22. After Tuesday, July 22, 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 Friday, Aug. 8, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent.

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