You get a professional tryout contract! And you get a professional tryout contract! I think Stan Bowman hired Oprah Winfrey as an assistant this offseason.
Just a few days after defenseman Jan Hejda and forward Daniel Paille received professional tryout contracts with the Chicago Blackhawks, another elder statesman blueliner has agreed to the same deal. Lubomir Visnovsky, most recently with the New York Islanders, will appear at Blackhawks training camp under a professional tryout contract.
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For the uninitiated, a PTO contract limits the number of games that a player can appear in at 25.