working on contract chart, looking for contract status on these guys:
Abramov
Beauvillier
Llewellyn
Thurkauf
Gibson
Hora
Ruopp
Brodeur
Forsberg
Pressini
Thiessen
I'm guessing either PTO, ATO, or AHL
That list represents a mixed bag. The CBJ are only permitted to have 50 professional contracts in place at any one time. They currently have 47. Certain exceptions are permitted.
The only player on that list that is currently one of the 47 is Forsberg. He is going into the final year of his 3-year entry level contract. It is a two-way contract that allows him to play in the AHL or the NHL, and pays varying money depending upon where he is playing.
NHL teams can hold the rights of a player for two years after they are drafted before they must tender them a contract. Guys like Abramov (drafted June 2016) fit that category. If they do not agree to a contract they go back in the draft. It is 4 years or upon leaving college for a US college player.
Guys like Brodeur are in camp as a training camp invitee (FA). The two years after they have been drafted originally (NJ for him) has passed and he was not re-drafted. They can be signed by any team at any time.
When you list the possibilities as PTO, ATO, AHL, there are a couple ways that could fit. If a prospect is too old for junior he can play AHL, ECHL, etc. but those are Pro leagues. He would have to have a contract. That could be an NHL two-way contract (Forsberg), or it could be an AHL only contract where no NHL team owns your rights (not part of the 50 limit). Steve Eminger for the Monsters last year would fit in that category.
You might want to bookmark the following two links;
http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/columbus-blue-jackets
http://www.hockeydb.com/
Both are really good about looking up factual matters about teams/players. (although some discussions are "facts be dammed" affairs).
