Toronto Maple Leafs sign Matt Read to a Professional Tryout Agreement

Matt Read, Toronto Maple Leafs PTOThe Toronto Maple Leafs have signed 33-year-old right winger Matt Read to a Professional Tryout Agreement, the club announced on Friday.

Read’s career has fallen a long way since he was in the Calder conversation in 2011-12 in Philadelphia, where he scored 24 goals and 47 points in his rookie season as an FA signing of the Flyers out of college and played his first three NHL seasons to a 20+ goal pace.

The Ilderton, Ontario native has appeared in just 31 total NHL games over the past two seasons, spending the majority of his time — when not sidelined by injury — in the AHL with Lehigh and most recently Iowa (61 games, 16 goals, 37 points in 2018-19). Over…