the amateur part of ATO only means they havent played pro games, its for players coming from junior and college leagues. players that have played professional games sign a PTO or a pro tryout, and its the same thing as an ATO. It allows a player to play professional hockey games without a contract in place, that includes AHL and NHL games. I think youre confused still. sorry for being hostile earlier calling you a genius but youre not really doing anything to help your case man. I didnt understand it at first either thats why I did a little research and u can too big buddy
There are some, very limited, conditions where a player can play in the NHL on an ATO. But it is not a sustainable or feasible way for anyone to play more than 1 game, and even to play 1 game it is very hard to jump through the hoops to do so. And Michkov would not be a player who would ever really be eligible to.
As effectively to be re-called on an emergency basis it would have to be impossible to bring anyone up who had a valid SPC to play in the game... so the Flyers would have to contrive a situation where they were on a road-trip, had not enough players, not enough time to get another player, and Michkov travelling with them, and then he would be able to play one game IF the NHL approved it, which would be unlikely.
The CBA lays out the conditions for playing in the NHL on an ATO in 11.1.b and 13.12(m)(ii). It is only under emergency re-call conditions.
In effect you cannot play in the NHL on an ATO unless:
The team has less than 2 goalies, 6 Dmen and 12 forwards available.
And:
The contract is for 1 day.
The league have to approve it.
The player gets zero salary.
Also, there is no such thing as an NHL PTO (aside from for goalies).
Furthermore, ATOs that you have identified are not actually signed with the NHL team, but the AHL team, which have different rules.
You can play in the AHL on a standard AHL ATO and PTO with basically no approval. The NHL has far different rules.