'The Sabres have made eight qualifying offers. The rest of the offers to restricted free agents don't have to be out until June 30th. These players participated in the World Championships and would not have been insured had they not been qualified. They are Daniel Briere, J.P. Dumont, Jeff Jillson, Mike Grier, Mika Noronen, Dmitri Kalinin, Maxim Afinogenov and Jochen Hecht.'