{"id":133799,"date":"2025-07-21T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/133799\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:03:10","slug":"michigan-state-earns-commitment-from-porter-martone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/133799\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State earns commitment from Porter Martone"},"content":{"rendered":"

EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 Porter Martone<\/a>, a top 10 pick from June\u2019s NHL Entry Draft, committed to Michigan State on Monday, according to his Instagram account. <\/p>\n

Martone, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound forward from Peterborough, Ontario, spent last season as a right winger with the OHL\u2019s Brampton Steelheads. He ended the year with 98 points (37 goals and a team-best 61 assists) in 57 games played. Brampton finished fifth in the OHL\u2019s Eastern Conference but fell to the Oshawa Generals in the conference quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Three months later, the Philadelphia Flyers selected Martone No. 6 overall in the NHL Draft. He participated in the Flyers\u2019 development camp earlier this month. <\/p>\n

Martone, 18, also represented Team Canada at this year\u2019s IIFH World Championships and World Junior Championships. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Martone is known as a power forward, it\u2019s more accurate to describe him as a playmaker,\u201d EliteProspects<\/a> wrote in its scouting report of Martone<\/a>. \u201cThe patterns of the game seem imprinted in his mind. Constantly scanning the ice and knowing his teammates\u2019 tendencies, system\u2019s rotations, and the expected movements of defenders, he stays connected with linemates, avoids coverage, and puts himself in advantageous spots to make the next play. He builds deft passing plays, moves ahead of the opposition, and preys on defenders\u2019 and goalies\u2019 expectations, manipulating them to open up great scoring possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martone is a significant addition for Michigan State, which lost reigning Hobey Baker Award winner Isaac Howard<\/a> to the NHL on July 9. The Spartans<\/a> also finished second to Penn State in the battle for Gavin McKenna<\/a>, the projected No. 1 pick in next year\u2019s NHL Draft. <\/p>\n

But fourth-year Spartan head coach Adam Nightingale<\/a> still returns a team with plenty of talent. Michigan State will have 14 former NHL Draft picks on its roster this winter, including all eight of its incoming freshmen.<\/p>\n

Two of those freshmen (Martone and 2024 No. 4 pick Cayden Lindstrom<\/a>) were selected in the top 10. The 2025-26 campaign will mark the first time that Michigan State has had two top 10 picks on its active roster.<\/p>\n

Of the 10 first round picks who signed as freshmen in program history, six played for the Spartans after being drafted. Martone, Lindstrom and incoming freshman Ryker Lee<\/a> will become the seventh, eighth and ninth such players.<\/p>\n

With the additions of Martone, Lindstrom and Lee, Nightingale will have coached four first round picks whom he signed as freshmen. Artyom Levshunov<\/a> \u2013 the No. 2 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft \u2013 is the other.<\/p>\n

Michigan State will enter the 2025-26 season looking to win its third consecutive Big Ten regular season and tournament championships, while advancing further in the NCAA Tournament after bowing out in the opening round last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 Porter Martone, a top 10 pick from June\u2019s NHL Entry Draft, committed to Michigan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[5,4,465,466,20655],"class_list":{"0":"post-133799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-nhl-draft","11":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","12":"tag-regwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114893724414116002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}