#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Looks like a tryout to land a standard player contract in, say, the ECHL. (Let's say for ~reasons~ a failed NHLer is looking more at ECHL than AHL.) So, what would that look like?

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the ECHL does PTOs.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's why I revised to standard player contract, sorry. What I mean is a tryout/interview for someone who's already been a pro, not someone who's an amateur coming out of college.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

na

If a former-NHLer wants to go the ECHL, the process would basically go: *calls agent* "Hey, I still want to play."

"Sure, you want to me to look around Europe?"

"Maybe the ECHL."

"You sure?"

And basically, his agent would find him a job.

More usually, PTOs (the professional try out for someone who has already been a pro) is for ECHLers trying out for AHL or NHL teams. Or AHL to other AHL team/NHL teams.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks! That was also somewhat my thinking. Do you think framing it as more like a job interview where the player is picking the team and looking for goodness of fit would make sense? Like he goes and does a quick scrimmage/looks at facilities/talks with the team's front office, rather than anything more formal? Or having him do a 'drop in' on a practice?

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

It seems like you really want an interview/tour/practice drop-in visit along the lines of a RL corporate job interview to happen (which would have made this question a lot easier to deal with if you'd insisted on that to begin with). In which case, an interview or tour type thing is very much a possibility, assuming the player doesn't have his rights held by any other club or has been given permission to talk to other clubs. But the practice drop-in or scrimmage or other participation in club activities is something I've never once heard of happening before an agreement of some kind has been signed, and then once it's been signed, I've never heard of it being anything but a full-on "you're a part of this team until we cut/waive/release/send you down" type of thing.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't really have a clearcut notion of what this would look like, so I asked. I didn't mean to be unclear.