With news that Porter Martone is now with the Philadelphia Flyers, the forward joins a list of other NCAA hockey players who, once they finished their collegiate careers, decided to join the club late in the season. While Martone might be the biggest or highest drafted of the lot, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s the first. Here then is a list of NCAA players not named Porter Martone who after college hockey signed with the Flyers to play. Note the list is from the current day dating back to 2018, so forgive us for not including Shayne Gostisbehere, Matt Read, and John LeClair among countless others. <\/p>\n
Karsen Dorwart<\/p>\n
Dorwart was an undrafted forward who spent three years with Martone\u2019s alma mater at Michigan State. After completing his final year with the Spartans where he scored 13 goals and had 18 helpers in 35 games, Dorwart signed with the Flyers on Mar. 30, 2025 to an entry-level contract. It took him less than a week later to see his first game with Philadelphia against the Habs on April 5. Although he didn\u2019t score in any of his five games last season, he did register two shots in his first game and averaged 10:58 ice time in those handful of contests. He logged 12:15 in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Senators on April 13. Dorwart hasn\u2019t seen a game of action for Philadelphia this season but has nine goals and 12 assists for 21 points with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms through 62 games. <\/p>\n
Ronnie Attard<\/p>\n
Four years to the date of Martone\u2019s signing today, Ronnie Attard signed a two-year entry-level deal ($883,750 AAV) on the dotted line with the Flyers. Attard, drafted in the third round of the 2019 NHL Draft (72nd overall), played 15 games at the end of the 2021-22 season. In those games he scored a pair of goals and had a pair of assists for four points. He registered his first NHL point with an assist in a 4-2 loss to Columbus on April 5. And he got his first goal in a 5-3 loss to Anaheim a few days later. Unfortunately, his first NHL game is one he\u2019d like to forget. Attard was a -4 in a 6-3 loss to Toronto on April 2, 2022. Attard never stuck around with the Flyers, and was traded to Edmonton for Ben Gleason in November, 2024. Last season, Attard signed a one-year deal with Colorado but hasn\u2019t seen any games with the Avs.<\/p>\n
Noah Cates<\/p>\n
Two days before the Flyers inked Attard, they also signed center Noah Cates to a two-year, entry-level deal ($925,000 AAV). Cates, a native of Minnesota, had just completed his fourth season at the University of Minnesota (Duluth) where he 11 goals and 13 assists in 37 games. Selected by the Flyers in the fifth round of the 2017 NHL Draft, Cates fared quite well in his opening stint. In 16 games he ended up with five goals to go with four assists for nine points, not bad for a rookie. And he was also a +4 in terms of plus\/minus.<\/p>\n
Although getting nearly 15 minutes of ice time (14:52) in his first game in Minnesota against the Wild (and getting three shots on goal), Cates got his first NHL goals April 5, 2022 against Columbus. And got his second in the subsequent game (against Columbus again) on April 7. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cates had his best game in this stretch against Pittsburgh where he had a goal and two assists in a 4-1 win at home. He scored all of his goals in just 20 shots, resulting in a highly impressive shooting percentage of 25 per cent. As history has shown, Cates remained with the Flyers for the long haul and looks to be an important part of their center depth moving forward. He has career highs in goals and assists and has an outside shot of hitting 20 goals for the first time.<\/p>\n
Jackson Cates<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s brother might have been the pioneer in terms of Flyers signings, but he didn\u2019t have his brother\u2019s staying power. On April 13, 2021, Cates signed a two-year deal with Philadelphia. It might seem rather late in the season for a NCAA player to sign, but considering the global pandemic and its affect on scheduling, it all seems to make sense. Cates, who spent three seasons at the University of Minnesota (Duluth), had 11 goals and 27 points in his final season before signing with the Flyers. And in his four-game stint in 2020-21, Cates earned just one assist in three games against the Devils and one against the Rangers. Cates played 11 games the following season with Philadelphia, and five more in 2022-23. Since then he\u2019s spent his entire career in the American Hockey League, including the last three seasons with the Rockford Icehogs. <\/p>\n
Cam York<\/p>\n
One Cameron York was signed on April Fools Day, 2021 to a three-year deal. Since that time he\u2019s been no joke primarily but a stable presence on the Flyers back end. After two seasons at the University of Michigan, York played three games for Philadelphia in 2020-21 but also had some seasoning with Lehigh Valley for eight games where he had two goals and three assists. In the three games for the Flyers in 2020-21, York had no goals or assists, but he played. And for a rookie, he played a lot. In his first game April 7, 2021, against Washington (a 4-2 Flyers win), York played 20:19. The following night, he played 15 seconds more than that, also against Washington (a 2-1 overtime defeat). Two nights later, he played just over 18 minutes in another Philadelphia win.<\/p>\n
As was well-documented, York didn\u2019t have a sensational training camp the following season despite many thinking he was a lock to make the club. After some time putting in the work in Lehigh Valley, York got the call up. And except for a 20-game stint with the Phantoms in 2022-23, he\u2019s been with the big club ever since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With news that Porter Martone is now with the Philadelphia Flyers, the forward joins a list of other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530301,"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-530300","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\/116315510849976529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530300","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=530300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}