{"id":529917,"date":"2026-03-29T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/529917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:46:12","slug":"porter-martone-signs-entry-level-contract-with-flyers-poised-to-make-nhl-debut-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/529917\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter Martone signs entry-level contract with Flyers, poised to make NHL debut this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Porter Martone\u2019s college season came to an end late on Saturday afternoon. Less than 24 hours later, his college career officially ended as well, and his time as a Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> player began.<\/p>\n

At 1:00 PM on Sunday, the Flyers officially announced<\/a> that Martone \u2014 who the club selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2025 draft back in June of last year \u2014 signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the club. Before, the Flyers only owned Martone\u2019s NHL rights. Now, he\u2019s officially a member of the organization, and can play for the Flyers in NHL games \u2014 as soon as this season, as the first year of the contract begins right now.<\/p>\n

Martone was already a highly-touted prospect entering this season, given his status as a top-10 pick. But his stock has only risen over the past nine months, as he established himself as one of the top freshmen in college hockey, finishing with 25 goals and 50 points in 35 games for Michigan State. Unfortunately for Martone and his teammates, the Spartans were upset on Saturday afternoon by Wisconsin, knocking them out of the NCAA tournament just one win away from a Frozen Four appearance.<\/p>\n

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Michigan State\u2019s loss was the Flyers\u2019 gain, however, as the end to Martone\u2019s college season opened the door for him to turn pro and sign his first NHL contract, which he did on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"USATSIMSU\u2019s Porter Martone (22) goes after the puck against OSU in Big 10 action Saturday, March 14, 2026 at Munn Arena.<\/p>\n

Martone will almost certainly be in attendance for Sunday night\u2019s Flyers game against the Dallas Stars, but he won\u2019t dress for the game. A team source told PHLY that Martone still needed to handle a few personal duties and also had to be cleared by Flyers doctors before officially deemed game-ready. Plus, Martone did just play on Saturday \u2014 there\u2019s little need for Martone to make his NHL debut in the second game of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

But expect Martone to be joining the Flyers\u2019 lineup soon \u2014 possibly as soon as Tuesday night in Washington against the Capitals, and certainly for the team\u2019s pivotal home matchup on Thursday against the Detroit Red Wings, who also factor heavily in the Eastern Conference playoff race. There\u2019s an obvious spot in the top-nine available for Martone \u2014 the spot held by Carl Grundstr\u00f6m, who currently is playing left wing on a line with Noah Cates and Matvei Michkov \u2014 and presumably Martone would slide right into that vacated place.<\/p>\n

Now, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Porter Martone will begin his NHL career on the same line as fellow top-10 pick Michkov; head coach Rick Tocchet could easily decide to juggle the line combinations to accommodate Martone. It\u2019s worth remembering that Martone is a natural right wing, and if the Flyers want him to begin his NHL career at his best position, one of Michkov, Travis Konecny or Owen Tippett (the team\u2019s current right-side wingers) would have to move over to LW to make way for the rookie. All three have played left wing at the NHL level, and all are plausible candidates to shift.<\/p>\n

There are debates in the hockey world regarding Martone\u2019s ultimate NHL ceiling. Some (including the Flyers) believe he has star-level potential, in the form of a physical, agitating offensive weapon, capable both of scoring goals in high-danger areas and setting up teammates with elite vision and hockey sense. Skeptics point to concerns over his skating and (especially) pace, and worry that he\u2019ll be more a middle-of-the-lineup scorer against NHL competition. But this point, Martone\u2019s skillset has translated at every level, and he even has brief experience against NHL competition to draw from, as he played for Canada at World Championships last year.<\/p>\n

Two of Martone\u2019s teammates from that Team Canada squad? Travis Konecny and Travis Sanheim, who now will be his full-time teammates in the NHL. They\u2019ll be hoping that Martone provides a late-season boost to the Flyers in their attempts to nab one of the final playoff spots in the Eastern Conference over the last two weeks of the 2025-26 season, and that Martone quickly establishes himself as an impact-level NHL player, setting himself up for his first full-time NHL campaign in 2026-27.<\/p>\n

Porter Martone\u2019s days as a mere prospect (the team\u2019s No. 1 prospect, to be fair) are at an end. He is now officially a Philadelphia Flyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porter Martone\u2019s college season came to an end late on Saturday afternoon. Less than 24 hours later, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-529917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","13":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116314425550541383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529917","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=529917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}