The Blackhawks plan to tender qualifying offers to defensemen Erik Gustafsson and Ville Pokka and forwards Dennis Rasmussen and Tomas Jurco, according to a source.

The Blackhawks do not plan to qualify forward Michael Latta and defensemen Kenton Helgesen and Nolan Valleau, the source said.

All seven players were set to become restricted free agents on July 1. The deadline for qualifying offers was 4 p.m. Central on Monday. By providing qualifying offers, the Blackhawks retain the negotiations rights to those players.

Rasmussen, 26, appeared in the most NHL games for the Blackhawks last season. He had four goals and four assists in 68 games. He’s played 112 games over the last two seasons. He signed as a European free agent prior to the 2014-15 season. He had a $575,000 cap hit this past season.

Rasmussen was hopeful to re-sign with the Blackhawks after the season.

“I don’t know what my options are,” Rasmussen said on April 22. “I know right now that I want to play here and I feel like I just want to get the [playoff] games back. You can’t get the games back. I feel like I want to play playoffs again and I want to play with this team and do something better than we did this year.”

Jurco, 24, was acquired by the Blackhawks from the Detroit Red Wings at the traded deadline this past season. He had one goal in 13 games for the Blackhawks. He had a $900,000 cap hit this past season.

“He’s another guy who can play, played games, going to be seeing opportunity to get quality ice time and play with some pretty good players,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said of Jurco on Saturday. “Think of how many guys you lose, opportunity for him is great.”

Gustafsson, 25, did not appear in an NHL game this past season after playing in 41 games during the 2015-16 season. He spent this past with the Rockford IceHogs in the AHL. He signed as a European free agent in 2015. He had a $667,500 cap hit this past season.

Pokka, 23, has not played in an NHL game in his career. He’s been consider one of the IceHogs’ top defensemen the past two seasons. The Blackhawks acquired Pokka from the New York Islanders as part of the Nick Leddy trade in 2014. He had a cap hit of $925,000 this past season.

“I think the case with Ville, sometimes it can be mentally taxing when you feel like you’re in a situation where you’re not getting an opportunity,” Blackhawks assistant general manager Norm Maciver recently said of Pokka. “Sometimes it’s very tough to play through that. We still think there’s something there. We haven’t given hope up on Ville. He still needs to continue to put in the work. Again, he’s 22 years old. It’s not like he’s well past his prime. He’s got a lot of attributes that most NHL defensemen have and that he still needs to continue to work on.”

The Blackhawks had acquired Latta and Helgesen in trades and Valleau had been signed as a college free agent. None of them had played in the NHL for the Blackhawks.

(Top image: Dennis Wierzbicki/USA TODAY Sports)

