Frattin Signs With Leafs
by Chemmy on Apr 8, 2011 8:35 PM EDT
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Matt Frattin has ended our speculation and signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Per an employee of the University of North Dakota,Jayson Hajdu:
@UNDSID: Breaking: Matt Frattin has signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Details to come.
@UNDSID: Frattin will suit up for the Leafs tomorrow night.
Frattin wore #21 in college which is honoured for Borje Salming. It's unlikely he'll wear #21 for the Leafs due to that and Burke's insistence that rookies wear high numbers. If Kadri's wearing #43, Frattin isn't playing his first game wearing an honoured sweater.
I'll say that I'm pleasantly surprised: if Frattin waited until August 15th he could have been an unrestricted free agent and chosen where to play. Perhaps it was Burke offering him a contract after he got kicked off the squad last year or perhaps Frattin just wanted to play in the largest hockey market in the world. We don't really know but Burke did a good job on this.
For those unaware of his past:
Matt Frattin Arrested and Suspended
Frattin was arrested along with former Sioux hockey player Joe Finley at about 3 a.m. Tuesday after campus police saw the pair throwing objects — cups, plates, a kitchen table and a lawnmower — from a residential garage on the 400 block of North Columbia Road, where one of the two lives.
Seems harmless enough to me but he later was charged with a DUI (later acquitted). He was kicked off the Sioux but pledged to stay with the team rather than sign the offered pro contract from the Leafs. He was a runner up for the 2011 Hobey Baker award; given annually to a senior who later uses it to hide his ECHL "participation" trophies on his mantle.
Good to have Frattin on board, I'll have a post up tomorrow with what role he'll likely fill for the Leafs.
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Saw this in the previous thread
But why would Frattin playing 1 game for the Leafs burn a year off his ELC? I thought you had to play 7 (9?) games before the first year would be counted.
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probably a condition of him not holding out till UFA and testing the market
Rule #20
by JaredFromLondon on Apr 8, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah. Also he might just be plain old excited to play.
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Sounds like he was even surprised himself how quickly he got called up
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Matt frattin didn’t expect call up so soon. He’ll bus back tonite to grand forks to get his passport and fly to toronto on saturday.
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You have to hope even harder, cover your ears, and go 'blah blah blah blah blah!'
Nope
that only works if he was being sent back to the CHL, i.e. Kadri last year, Blacker, etc.
Brayden Irwin signed last year, played 1 NHL game it burned a year of his ELC.
It’s not for certain whether or not it burns it, but if it does it would make sense – it may have been a negotiating item that Burke needed to give on to get Frattin to sign so quick.
Deal is for 2-years BTW via jonas640.
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You have to hope even harder, cover your ears, and go 'blah blah blah blah blah!'
Didn’t Hanson have a similar situation 2 years ago?
Only played a few games, burned a year.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Apr 8, 2011 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Da Costa's is the same way
It’s a way of getting to their 2nd contract a year earlier than they would have otherwise…. I wouldn’t be shocked if it was something Frattin’s agent requested.
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You have to hope even harder, cover your ears, and go 'blah blah blah blah blah!'
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Confirmed with Claude Loiselle, Leafs cap guru: Leafs burn a year of Frattin’s ELC. The cap hit on the deal is $1.3 million.
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You have to hope even harder, cover your ears, and go 'blah blah blah blah blah!'
well except this year the leafs would be charged 1/82nd of that cap hit, because he only plays the 1 game. But whatever.
I thought that too, but it doesn’t quite work that way. It is pro rated through the amount of days in the NHL season – Possibly even preseason and training camp.
At this point, his cap hit will be less than that.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Apr 9, 2011 7:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Check some of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJ9H9qBFFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA38q-FkbU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXY0Iva_jq8
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You have to hope even harder, cover your ears, and go 'blah blah blah blah blah!'
the wrister I'm not hopeful about per se
but he seemed quick on rebounds in a few of those. That’s something that can translate.
Colborne!
@HennyTweets: Colborne will centre lupul and kessel vs habs. I expect frattin to play wing with bozak in the middle and kadri on the other wing.
This...
Makes me wish I did not work tomorrow night.
Depressing :(
Regardless of the result, I have a feeling this is going to be fun to watch.
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by lucc on Apr 8, 2011 10:35 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Agreed.
Get a chance to salivate at the possibilities! :-)
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by Jeremiah Stanghini on Apr 9, 2011 12:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Pretty phsyched about this...
But I worry if they’ll be enough goals to go around before the team lets off the gas
Goalboner (combine the two wooo) with another 2 goal welcome to the team
Frattin (we need a nickname for him now… I vote something to do with a Frat like AlphaSigmaSigma) with 2 to honor the new paycheck
Kadri with #4 and 5 to give him a nice round number
Grabo with #30
Kessel with a Hatty just cause its Kessel
Thats only 10…. guess thats reasonable
Does that stand for ‘Murder Death Kill’???
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by El Monstruo on Apr 9, 2011 9:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Also..
here is tomorrows cheering Schedual
NJ- cause fuck the Rangers
Ottawa- Clinches Ottawa 5th overall pick… if they lose and NYI wins then Ott gets 4th and no one wants that… Bonus: clinches bos for having worst record of division winners= better pick for us
GO LEAFS GO!!
NYI so pens can pass flyers for division lead= us having chance at better pick
Carolina- Fuck the Rangers
CBJ- Fuck Buffalo (although a part of me wants buff to move to 6th so the habs are worse but i prefer habs bruins in 1st round)
Nash win or STL SO win- allows us to move up one spot overall
just realized
If Pens pass Philly and win the division and neither Bruins or Philly make the conference finals then we are going to have back to back picks in the draft as bruins will (most likely) have worst record of division winners and philly would have best record of non division winners
the picks would be anywhere from 20+21 to 24+25 depending on who makes the conference finals
of course this is all dependent on Pitt passing Philly and Bos not passing one of the other division winners… go pens go (eww I feel dirty now)
Oh man all this Frattin love
I got one thing to say, you’re all biased.
/think about it
Fairweather fans can go to hell
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by leafer1984 on Apr 9, 2011 9:43 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
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