March 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nThis comes after several hours of following the ins and outs of whether or not Martone will get his visa paperwork done in time. As soon as he put pen to paper Sunday, it was made clear that the Flyers are going to try to get him to make his debut fairly quickly, but he needed to make his student visa, from his year at Michigan State, to a work visa \u2014 and all the other paperwork, as well as getting cleared by the Flyers\u2019 doctors. Martone was basically thrown through a Seussian contraption with paper flying everywhere and getting poked and prodded to make sure he\u2019s eligible to get on the ice.<\/p>\n
Flyers prospect Porter Martone\u2019s NHL debut date is set<\/p>\n
There has been no official word from head coach Rick Tocchet or general manager Danny Briere to make it 100% without a shadow of a doubt that Martone is going to be on the ice Tuesday night, but one has to imagine that if all the housekeeping is done, then it will happen. The only possibility as to why he won\u2019t be in the lineup is to get him in some more NHL practice time and get him familiar with the team.<\/p>\n
The Flyers did not hold an official team practice Monday, but Martone joined the regular healthy scratches \u2014 Garrett Wilson and Noah Juulsen \u2014 and fellow winger Tyson Foerster as he\u2019s on his path to recovery from a lengthy injury. All four skaters were on the ice in Voorhees, surrounded by onlookers and fans, as they had a much more relaxed skate than anything that would be considered a full practice led by Tocchet.<\/p>\n
That little skate-around could very well serve as the practice time that Martone gets to have with some Flyers supervision, and then will be getting the morning skate on Tuesday before being officially a part of the lineup.<\/p>\n
We will be getting confirmation from Tocchet in the afternoon, or at least we could just look at what the forward lines are at morning skate and make the obvious conclusion whether or not Martone will be in the game.<\/p>\n
No matter where Martone is in the lineup, he will certainly have a spotlight on him as only Matvei Michkov\u2019s debut last season could even come close to rivaling this moment for Flyers fans. It\u2019s hard not to be extremely excited about the potential to add a talent like Martone\u2019s after watching him score 25 goals and 50 points in 35 games for the Spartans this year and look like one of the best players in the entire country while doing so.<\/p>\n
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