Professional Try-Out (PTO)

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As of 2015-16, CSC clubs participate in a PTO ("Professional Try-Out") Draft 15 minutes following the conclusion of the full Draft.

The PTO spot allows teams to hold a very limited, time-sensitive “minor-league” system consisting of one (1) player. The PTO Draft consists of 1 round and 16 picks, whose order is entirely randomized following the conclusion of the full Draft.

PTO Draft & Regulations[edit | edit source]

  • Teams take turns making one selection from the available pool of free-agent players who were not drafted in the first 23 rounds.
  • General managers who are not present at the time of the PTO draft will automatically pass their pick to the next person.
  • Players not drafted over the course of the 23-round Draft and who are listed in the Yahoo Fantasy Hockey player database are the only ones eligible to be selected in the PTO Draft. Prospects who are not listed on Yahoo are thus not eligible to be drafted as PTO players.
  • These players will act as Tier D players (Round 23) like undrafted free agents.
  • Players who are drafted become the property of that team without having to be on their active roster in the following manner:
    • If the player is not indicated as “NA” (not active) as of the first day of the first matchup of the season, teams will have 14 days to decide whether to add that player to their active roster. During this time, no other team may add the PTO player.
      • After 14 days, if he has not been added to the active roster of the team that drafted him, the player’s rights are released to free-agency and any team may then put in a waiver claim for him
    • If the player is indicated as “NA” (not active) as of the first day of the first matchup of the season, the 14-day clock will not start until he is called up. Meaning, as long as he has not been called up to the NHL team (and thus loses his NA status), he will remain the property of the team that drafted him and during this time no team may add this player.
    • When the player is called up (and loses his NA status), the 14-day clock will start and the regular rules will apply: the team will have 14 days to add this player to this active roster. After 14 days, the player’s rights are released to free-agency and any team may put in a waiver claim for him.
    • As long as a player has not been called up, he may retain his PTO status. The second he is called up, however, the clock starts.

Teams who violate the PTO rule and put a waiver claim in for players whose rights belong to another team will see the player removed from their active roster and will face a fine.

Players whose rights are owned via a PTO and added to the CSC club holding their rights before the 14-day period has elapsed must play one game for their CSC club to be eligible to be kept. Players who lose their PTO status and are thereafter added to a CSC club are eligible to be kept as any standard player claimed off waivers would be.

Results[edit | edit source]

2023-24[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 SPR C Sean Monahan
2 TOL W Corey Perry
3 ATL-T W Joshua Roy
4 CHI D Matt Grzelcyk
5 PHI G Matt Murray
6 TOR C Tyson Foerster
7 STL D Josh Manson
8 MTL-M C Cole Sillinger
9 ATL-F G Carey Price
10 QC G Casey DeSmith
11 MTL-W D Ville Heinola
12 LA G Karel Vejmelka
13 COL D Scott Perunovich
14 SEA C Morgan Geekie

2022-23[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 BRO invalid pick [Jaromir Jagr]
2 PHI G Pavel Francouz
3 SPR D Chris Wideman
4 LA G Eric Kallgren
5 CHI invalid pick
6 TOR Piotr Kochetkov
7 JON G Karel Vejmelka
8 QC C Shane Pinto
9 CLE G Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
10 ATL-T D Scott Perunovich
11 COL C Casey Mittelstadt
12 SEA C Morgan Frost
13 ATL-F C Thomas Bordeleau
14 MTL-W D Ty Smith
15 STL C Paul Stastny
16 MTL-M W Kirill Marchenko

2021-22[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 ATL-T W Nikita Gusev
2 MTL-W G Kevin Lankinen
3 TOR D Keith Yandle
4 QC D Ryan Merkley
5 SEA W Vinnie Hinostroza
6 CLE G Chris Driedger
7 VAN-M D Duncan Keith
8 JON G Petr Mrazek
9 STL G Jonathan Quick
10 MTL-M W Zach Parise
11 BRO invalid pick [Jaromir Jagr]
12 LA C Jason Spezza
13 COL W Jakub Silfverberg
14 SPR W Troy Terry
15 PHI G Ben Bishop
15 ATL-F W Wayne Simmonds

2020-21[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 PHI D Jonas Brodin
2 MTL-M D Rasmus Sandin
3 JON D Nick Leddy
4 ATL-F W Jimmy Vesey
5 BRO W Alex Nylander
6 TOR W Drake Batherson
7 QC W Corey Perry
8 LA G Collin Delia
9 ATL-T W Mats Zuccarello
10 CLE G Kaapo Kahkonen
11 COL G Thomas Greiss
12 SEA C Alex Barré-Boulet
13 SPR C Joel Eriksson-Ek
14 VAN-M D Shayne Gostisbehere
15 MTL-W G Alex Nedeljkovic
16 STL D Joel Edmundson

2019-20[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 TOR W Jesse Puljujarvi
2 VAN-B W Justin Williams
3 STL D Dennis Cholowski
4 COL W Drake Caggiula
5 MTL-W G Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
6 CLE G Alex Nedeljkovic
7 SEA D Oliwer Kaski
8 LA W Ilya Mikheyev
9 SPR D Brett Kulak
10 PHI C Connor McMichael
11 MTL-M D Travis Hamonic
12 ATL-T G Igor Shesterkin
13 BRO C,W Dillon Dube
14 ATL-F C,W Patrick Marleau
15 VAN-M C,W Jordan Weal
16 QC C Henrik Borgstrom

2018-19[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 QC C Travis Zajac
2 ATL-F W Joel Ward
3 SEA D Philippe Myers
4 ATL-T none
5 VAN-M none
6 COL W Tage Thompson
7 LA W Dylan Sikura
8 KC none
9 PHI C Adam Gaudette
10 SPR C Dillon Dube
11 MTL-W G Cam Ward
12 VAN-B C Victor Rask
13 STL C Jan Kovar
14 CLE G Thatcher Demko
15 MTL-M none
16 TOR G Jon Gillies

2017-18[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 COL invalid pick
2 LA W Martin Frk
3 SEA D Samuel Girard
4 TOR W Nikita Soshnikov
5 KC C,W Blake Speers
6 STL W Oskar Lindblom
7 CLE invalid pick
8 PHI W Alexander Volkov
9 ATL-F W Logan Brown
10 MTL-M G Juuse Saros
11 ATL-T invalid pick
12 MTL-W W Nail Yakupov
13 SPR C,W J.T. Compher
14 QC D Christian Djoos
15 VAN-M C,W Klim Kostin
16 VAN-B W Daniel Sprong

2016-17[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 SEA W Hunter Shinkaruk
2 KC W Cody McLeod
3 VAN-M C Vladimir Sobotka
4 ATL-T W Artturi Lehkonen
5 COR W Lawson Crouse
6 SPR W Brandon Pirri
7 COL D Esa Lindell
8 ATL-F W Andrej Nestrasil
9 CLE W Andreas Athanasiou
10 STL D Marco Scandella
11 MTL-W W Travis Konecny
12 QC none
13 MTL-M D Julius Honka
14 VAN-B D Mikhail Sergachev
15 PHI D Nikita Zaitsev
16 HAR W Hudson Fasching

2015-16[edit | edit source]

# Team Selection
1 VAN W Rene Bourque
2 MTL-M C Leon Draisaitl
3 STL W Curtis Glencross
4 KC none
5 BRK C Patrik Berglund
6 SEA W Ales Hemsky
7 QC G John Gibson
8 HAR W Brad Boyes
9 PHI W Dylan Larkin
10 COR W Ryan Hartman
11 COL D Shea Theodore
12 ATL-F D Darnell Nurse
13 CAL D Ivan Provorov
14 MTL-W D Griffin Reinhart
15 CLE G Calvin Pickard
16 ATL-T D Julius Honka