Mile High Hockey · Aug 24, 2023
Morning Flurries: It’s PTO season
Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesAs the final weeks of summer slip by it’s now time for all unsigned players to find a home for the upcoming season and for teams to fill out the remainder of their training camp rosters, which is often in the form of the ever popular Professional Tryout Contract.
Cap Friendly unearthed the Colorado Avalanche PTO signing of center Peter Holland, a former 2009 first round draft pick of the Anahiem Ducks. Holland hasn’t played in the NHL since the 2017-18 season and sat out all of 2022-23 contemplating retirement. Now it appears he’s giving hockey one more shot and we’ll see what he has left in the tank cone training camp.
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