The Toronto Maple Leafs today announced that they have signed winger Matt Read to a PTO. Who is Matt Read, you ask?
Well, he used to play for the Flyers, so he knows Dave Hakstol. Read, in his prime, was a solid citizen 10-20 goal-scoring forward, who had some great defensive results and was a black hole for offence. Visualizations of his career results look a lot like Matt Martin’s only with double the points and a tiny fraction of the penalty minutes. He takes so few himself, that even though he’s not the sort of player to draw penalties, he ends up with a very favourable differential.