MLHS · Apr 15, 2024
Eight years later, the Maple Leafs take a flyer on former draft pick Nicolas Mattinen
If you want to talk about a road less traveled en route to an NHL contract, how is this one for the newly signed Nicolas Mattinen?
A sixth-round pick of the Leafs in 2016 -> four years in the OHL spanning London, Flint, and Oshawa -> two years of Canadian university hockey (U. of Ottawa) -> a cup of tea in the AHL with Laval -> Austrian league -> German league -> a one-year, two-way NHL deal worth $775k with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the age of 26.
\ud83d\udd8a We’ve signed defenceman Nicolas Mattinen to a one-year, two-way contract beginning in 2024-25
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