{allcanada} NHL teams make qualifying offers

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The Philadelphia Flyers made qualifying offers to four players Monday, the last day NHL clubs could issue offers to restricted free agents.

By issuing qualifying offers, teams are given the right of the first refusal or draft-choice compensation should the player sign an offer sheet with another NHL club. Players without an offer will become unrestricted free agents if not signed by noon EDT on Tuesday, the start of free agency.

The Flyers made offers to right winger Jason Akeson, defenseman Erik Gustafsson, defenseman Brandon Manning and left winger Tye McGinn.

Akeson, 23, appeared in all seven games for the Flyers-New York Rangers series in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, posting two goals and three points.

Gustafsson, 25, appeared in 31 regular-season games for the Flyers last season, recording 10 points and adding one goal in two Stanley Cup playoff games.

Manning, 23, led the AHL Adirondack defense in scoring with 23 assists and 31 points in 73 games while also tying for the team lead with 231 penalty minutes.

McGinn, 23, appeared in 18 games last season with the Flyers, posting four goals and five points.

Other NHL teams also announced their qualifying offers -- or non-offers -- issued Monday:

--Columbus Blue Jackets: The Jackets extended a qualifying offer to leading scorer center Ryan Johansen. He led the Blue Jackets with 33 goals and 63 points in 82 games in 2013-14.

Also receiving offers were forwards Corey Tropp, Matt Frattin, Sean Collins and Dana Tyrell and defensemen David Savard, Tim Erixon, Cody Goloubef and Will Weber.

Forwards Oliver Gabriel and Jake Hansen and defenseman Anton Blomqvist did not receiving qualifying offers.

--Arizona Coyotes: The Coyotes extended qualifying offers to restricted free agent forwards Brandon McMillan and Jordan Szwarz.

Szwarz, a 2009 fourth-round pick, made his NHL debut in 2013-14 and had three goals in 26 games. McMillan had two goals and four assists in 22 games.

--Dallas Stars: The Stars announced that they extended qualifying offers to five restricted free agents, among them center Cody Eakin, who was fourth on the team in the regular season with 16 goals and 35 points, and left winger Antoine Roussel, who had 14 goals, 29 points and a team-leading 209 penalty minutes.

Also receiving offers were center Scott Glennie and defensemen Brenden Dillon and Cameron Gaunce.

Defensemen Ryan Button and Hubert Labrie, centers Dustin Jeffrey and Tristan King and right winger Austin Smith did not get qualifying offers.

--Washington Capitals: The Capitals issued qualifying offers to four restricted free agents, including goaltender Edward Pasquale, who was acquired from the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

Also receiving offers were center Michael Latta and defensemen Nate Schmidt and Cameron Schilling.

--Buffalo Sabres: The Sabres extended qualifying offers to five players -- forwards Marcus Foligno, Tyler Ennis and Luke Adam, defenseman Chad Ruhwedel and goaltender Matt Hackett.

Not receiving offers were defenseman Jamie McBain and goaltender Connor Knapp.

--Tampa Bay Lightning: The Lightning made qualifying offers to forwards Brett Connolly, Richard Panik, Cody Kunyk and Philippe Paradis and defensemen Dmitry Korobov and Andrej Sustr.

Tampa Bay did not make offers to goaltender Anders Lindback, forward Geoff Walker, and defensemen Keith Aulie and Charles Landry.

--Minnesota Wild: The Wild made qualifying offers to five restricted free agents: forwards Nino Niederreiter, Jason Zucker and Justin Fontaine, goalie Darcy Kuemper and defenseman Jonathon Blum.

Not receiving offers were defensemen Josh Caron and Tyler Cuma and forward Kristopher Foucault.

--Florida Panthers: The Panthers extended qualifying offers to seven players, including defensemen Erik Gudbranson and Dmitry Kulikov.

Also receiving offers were defenseman Dylan Olsen and forwards Brandon Pirri, Jimmy Hayes, Ryan Martindale and Garrett Wilson.

--St. Louis Blues: The Blues made qualifying offers to forwards Jaden Schwartz, Vladimir Sobotka, Sergey Andronov and Sebastian Wannstrom as well as defenseman David Shields.

--Calgary Flames: The Flames made qualifying offers to goalie Joni Ortio, defensemen Mark Cundari and Chad Billins and forwards Lance Bouma, Joe Colborne and Ben Hanowski.

Center Paul Byron, left winger TJ Galiardi, right winger David Eddy, defenseman James Martin and goalie Olivier Roy did not receive qualifying offers.

--Nashville Predators: The Predators did not extend a qualifying offer to defenseman Michael Del Zotto, acquired from the New York Rangers on Jan. 22 for veteran defenseman Kevin Klein.

Nashville also did not extend offers to defenseman Charles-Olivier Roussel and center Joonas Rask.

--Winnipeg Jets: The Jets extended qualifying offers to forwards John Albert, Carl Klingberg, Eric O'Dell and Patrice Cormier, defenseman Ben Chiarot and goalie Michael Hutchinson.

--Carolina Hurricanes: The Hurricanes extended qualifying offers to forwards Jiri Tlusty, Zach Boychuk, Greg Nemisz, Justin Shugg and Jared Staal and defensemen Michal Jordan and Rasmus Rissanen.

--San Jose Sharks: The Sharks extended qualifying offers to forwards Tommy Wingels and James Sheppard, defensemen Jason Demers, Matt Tennyson and Taylor Doherty and goalie Harri Sateri.

The Sharks did not tender offers to forwards Brodie Reid, Sebastian Stalberg and Marek Viedensky and defensemen Sena Acolatse, Adam Comrie and Nick Petrecki.

--Edmonton Oilers: The Oilers extended qualifying offers to forwards Luke Gazdic, Curtis Hamilton, Roman Horak, Andrew Miller and Tyler Pitlick, goalie Richard Bachman and defensemen Philip Larsen, Jeff Petry and Justin Schultz.

--Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings extended qualifying offers to seven restricted free agents, according to multiple media outlets -- defensemen Danny DeKeyser and Adam Almquist; center Riley Sheahan, Landon Ferraro and Andrej Nestrasil; left winger Tomas Tatar and right winger Mitch Callahan.

Reportedly not receiving qualifying offers were center Cory Emmerton, right wingers Trevor Parkes and Willie Coetzee and defensemen Gleason Fournier and Max Nicastro.

--New York Islanders: Newsday reported the Islanders issued qualifying offers to eight restricted free agents, including defenseman Calvin de Haan, center Casey Cizikas and center Anders Lee.

Defenseman Matt Donovan and Aaron Ness, goaltenders Kevin Poulin and Anders Nilsson and left winger Brett Gallant also reportedly received qualifying offers.

The newspaper reported left winger Joe Diamond, defenseman Marc Cantin and center Matt Mangene did not receive offers.

--Pittsburgh Penguins: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the Penguins gave qualifying offers to six restricted free agents, including center Brandon Sutter and defenseman Simon Despres.

Also reportedly receiving offers were center Nick Spaling, acquired from the Nashville Predators during the 2014 draft; center Jayson Megna, right winger Bobby Farnham and defenseman Philip Samuelsson.

--Los Angeles Kings: The Los Angeles Times reported the Kings extended qualifying offers to restricted free agent forwards Andy Andreoff and Dwight King, goalie Jean-Francois Berube and defenseman Brayden McNabb.

The Kings reportedly will not make offers to forwards Steve Quailer, Jonathan Parker and James Livingston.

--Vancouver Canucks: TSN reported the Canucks will not give forwards Jordan Schroeder and Zac Dalpe qualifying offers.

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{allcanada} JETS RE-SIGN RW THORBURN TO THREE-YEAR, $3.6 MILLION DEAL

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The Winnipeg Jets re-signed right winger Chris Thorburn to a three-year, $3.6 million deal on Monday night.

Thorburn was set to become an unrestricted free agent at noon on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. just completed his seventh season with the Jets organization. In 55 games last year, Thorburn amassed two goals and nine assists.

Thorburn was originally drafted 50th-overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2001 NHL Draft, Thorburn spent time with the Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins before a deal to the then Atlanta Thrashers at the 2007 NHL Draft. He was at the end of a three-year deal worth $867,000 per season. 

In 55 games last season with the Jets, the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. native produced two goals, 11 points and 93 penalty minutes.

Thorburn was originally drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in 2001 and has spent the past seven seasons with Winnipeg — including four seasons in Atlanta with the Thrashers.

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{allcanada} Justin Bieber Expected to Attend Selena Gomez's Secret Birthday Bash-Get the Scoop!

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Selena Gomez is going to have a 22nd birthday party she'll never forget.

E! News has learned that the pop star is currently in planning stages of her upcoming bash, which will include her close friends and one very controversial attendee: her on-again-off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber.

And while most of the party details are still hush-hush, we do know that it will be held at a private estate in California around her special day—which is on July 22.

But perhaps unsurprisingly, there's already drama swirling around the secret event.

"No one wants [the Biebs] to go. All her friends want him out of the picture and just want her to have a relaxing birthday with no trouble and they think he's going to dominate her attention," an insider tells us.

"She doesn't seem to care that he spends time with other women and isn't always honest with her. She's hypnotized. Her friends just want her to enjoy herself for her birthday, but if Justin attends it might complicate matters."

Well, certain matters of the heart are complicated, right?

Things between Jelena have always run hot and cold, but old habits certainly die hard.

The two, who were most recently seen spending the weekend together in Los Angeles mid-June, are still quite close.

"You just can't drop those feelings," a second source told us recently. "There is too much there."

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{allcanada} Justin Bieber Shares Nearly Naked Selfie, Cuddles With Gal-Pal Chantel Jeffries: See the Pics

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Justin Bieber can't keep his shirt on (for better or worse).

The 20-year-old pop star took to his Shots account over the weekend to share a very revealing, nearly naked selfie of himself.

In the shirtless shot, the Biebs appears not to be wearing any clothes as he directs the camera lens towards his chest to show off his muscles and tattoos. The only thing Bieber is wearing is a gold chain necklace as her stares into the camera. He captioned the dark photo, "Night."

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Selena Gomez's man also shared a photo of himself cuddling with gal-pal Catherine Paiz and Chantel Jeffries, the same lady friend who was with the singer when he was arrested for DUI in Miami in January.

"Studio with these fools @chantel @catherine," Bieber wrote with the pic showing the two girls cozying up on each side of him.

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Jeffries shared her own pic of Bieber and Paiz, writing, "My Canadian babies trying to take a shots."

Despite the cozy pics, a source tells E! News that Bieber and Jeffries are "just friends" and that he and Gomez are still together.

Meanwhile, Bieber stepped out Saturday night in L.A. where he was spotted with a mystery woman at the Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale.

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{allcanada} NHL rumors: Ryan Miller 'being wooed' by Canucks in Vancouver

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When looking at the goaltending market, it would appear to be Ryan Miller and everybody else. The problem is he's still a No. 1 goaltender but there aren't many teams that are in need of one.

It's been difficult to find any potential landing spots for Miller now that the Blues decided not to re-sign him with Vancouver being one of the recurring potential destinations, few other places even have a fit, if any.

Well it looks like the Canucks might see a need there as well with the duo of Eddie Lack and Jacob Markstrom right now signed up for next season. That's why according to Bob McKenzie, the Canucks are wining and dining Miller.

If there's going to be a fit, this would seem to be it for Miller. He's been open about wanting to go to California to be closer to his wife, who is an actress but none of the teams are looking for a starter. At least being on the West Coast puts Miller a heck of a lot closer to LA than Buffalo or St. Louis. And more importantly, it's a team where he could get the lion's share of the minutes.

Miller, 33, was having a strong season in Buffalo before the Sabres traded him with Steve Ott to St. Louis when it was clear he wouldn't be re-signing. He disappointed in Buffalo, though, and couldn't get them over the hump in the postseason and not longer after the season was finished, the Blues said they were moving on with Brian Elliott and Jake Allen.

Overall Miller finished last season with a .918 save percentage and a 2.64 goals against average. He can still play and might be a good fit while the Canucks transition from the traded Roberto Luongo to the full-time Lack era.

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{allcanada} 'Princess' Eugenie aiming for Wimbledon coronation

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LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - Named after a British princess and tipped by John McEnroe as a Wimbledon queen-in-waiting, there are not many things that intimidate Eugenie Bouchard.

That was certainly the case on Monday as the Canadian 20-year-old made her debut outing this year on Wimbledon's famed Centre Court in front of members of the British royal family and lapped up the adulation of the crowd as it rose to salute her 7-6(5) 7-5 win over Serena Williams's conqueror Alize Cornet.

"You can ask my coach or my parents or anyone that I can be a princess," a grinning Bouchard, the first Canadian to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals, told reporters.

"I can be moody in the morning. I'm not much of a morning person. My fitness trainer carries my tennis bag around, but that's because I want to save all my energy for the match.

"I can demand a few things once in a while, but I do it with love."

Bouchard, whose "royalist" parents named her Eugenie after one of the daughters of Britain's Prince Andrew, is a no-nonsense Canadian who has no time for any friends or superstitions on the tennis tour. Accordingly, she was totally unfazed by the spectre of facing the woman who had beaten pre-tournament favourite and world No.1 Williams 48 hours earlier.

Even when her single-minded pursuit of a quarter-final place was rudely interrupted by the weather while trailing 2-3 in the first set, she accepted it as merely another part of the unique Wimbledon adventure.

"I'm happy I got the experience of playing under the famous roof. I follow the roof on Twitter, and he's kind of funny. I hope he's proud of how I played today. He was looking down. Hopefully he enjoyed the match," Bouchard said.

@WimbledonRoof was certainly impressed. Within seconds it responded to its 10,000 or so followers by saying: "Hey @geniebouchard. Hope you enjoyed playing under my protection today? You are welcome back any time..."

FIRING UP

The pitter-patter sound of raindrops heard through the translucent retractable covering failed to distract Bouchard as she came back from the 35-minute break to sprinkle her opponent's half of the court with thunderous winners.

An ace at 5-5 in the tiebreak gave her set point and Cornet surrendered with a backhand error.

Cornet's racket felt the full brunt of her anger as she tossed it on to the turf, but that appeared to have the desired effect in firing up the 25th seed.

Opting to attack the net more, the Frenchwoman looked like she would stretch the contest into a third set when she took a 4-2 and then a 5-3 lead.

But when Cornet served for the set, Bouchard showed the mindset and fighting instincts that carried her to the Australian and French Open semi-finals - the only woman to reach the last four of both tournaments this year.

She made sure there would be no more joyous turf-kissing by Cornet when the Frenchwoman looped a backhand long on match point to bow out in straight sets.

Fellow Canadians Carling Bassett-Seguso, Patricia Hy-Boulais and Daniel Nestor have all made the second week of the grasscourt major over the years, but none has managed to go as far as Bouchard.

"Another little historic thing for Canada. That's cool. I hope I can go further," said the 20-year-old whose next test will be against either French Open winner Maria Sharapova or German ninth seed Angelique Kerber.

For Bouchard, the promising results are starting to add up in 2014.

"I really enjoyed school. My favourite class was math. I was very determined to try to get 100 percent on all my math tests. I think that kind of self-discipline translates to tennis," she said.

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