{"id":557011,"date":"2026-03-31T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:38:08","slug":"chicago-wolves-sign-charlie-cerrato-to-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557011\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Wolves Sign Charlie Cerrato To Professional Tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0Carolina Hurricanes 2025 second-round draft pick\u00a0Charlie Cerrato\u00a0is set to get his first taste of pro hockey.<\/p>\n<p>Signing a professional tryout (PTO) with the Canes&#8217; American Hockey League affiliate, the Chicago Wolves, the 21-year-old joins a group that just locked up their spot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/chicago-wolves-clinch-2026-playoff-berth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A PTO allows Cerrato the opportunity to practice and potentially play with the Wolves. All options with respect to signing a contract with the Canes remain open &#8211; he could sign a contract that begins in 2025-26 or 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>The forward from Fallston, Maryland, had 27 points (7g, 20a) in 23 NCAA games with Penn State in 2025-26, helping the Nittany Lions to an NCAA tournament appearance, despite missing a chunk of the second semester due to injury. He\u00a0also played for the U.S. Selects team at the 2026 Spengler Cup, providing a goal and an assist in four games.<\/p>\n<p>The season before he was drafted (2024-25), Cerrato led all Big Ten rookies in goals, assists, and points, helping him earn Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors. He ranked second in the nation in points and assists and third in goals by a freshman skater. At the time, his 42 points also marked the second-most by a Nittany Lion rookie in school history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0Carolina Hurricanes 2025 second-round draft pick\u00a0Charlie Cerrato\u00a0is set to get his first taste of pro hockey.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-557011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}