With the new season comes new chance for former
Fighting Sioux hockey players to get their shot at playing in the
NHL, this season former
Fighting Sioux power forward
Matt Frattin is making an early impression and has a decent chance of making the NHL out of the
Toronto Maple Leafs training camp.
Kevin McGran; The Star --- One of few players who may actually get some ice time with the Leafs this year is Matt Frattin, easily the best player on the ice Tuesday night. The puck followed him around, it seemed. He scored the Leafs’ first goal, on a fine feed from defenceman Jake Gardiner.
It was a power-play goal with Frattin — a forward — playing the point.
“He clearly showed some of what he can do and I think he still has more to give,” Eakins said of Frattin. “We used him in all situations. We had him on the point on the power play, up front on the power play, 5-on-5, 4-on-4, penalty killing and he wasn’t falling away. It looks like he’s fairly fit as well.”
At 23, Frattin was one of the older players at the four-team tournament. It was expected he would dominate and he did. GM Brian Burke was impressed.
“I think he’s a good player,” Burke said of Frattin. “He’s going to get a good look in camp.”
