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Matt Frattin
Matthew Frattin (born January 3, 1988) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He began his NHL career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the organization that drafted him 99th overall in 2007. Frattin also played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings and Columbus Blue Jackets before rejoining Toronto in 2014 via a trade. Frattin spent a further season and a half in the Maple Leafs organization before being included in a nine-player trade with the Ottawa Senators.
At the end of his senior season of college ice hockey with the University of North Dakota, in 2010–11, Frattin was honored as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Player of the Year, also being named a Hobey Baker Award finalist.
Frattin was born in Edmonton, Alberta. As a youth, he played in the 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the North West Hawks minor ice hockey team from Edmonton.
He played junior hockey for the Fort Saskatchewan Traders of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) during the 2006–07 season. After playing junior A ice hockey in Alberta, he was then selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fourth round, 99th overall, of the 2007 NHL entry draft. He then enrolled at the University of North Dakota in 2007.
In August of 2009, Frattin was dismissed from the UND squad due to a DUI -- his second alcohol-related run-in with the police in two months. Despite being offered a professional contract from the Maple Leafs, Frattin opted to return to school. With his scholarship taken away, he took out student loans and decided to earn his way back onto the roster. This was a success, as Frattin "cleaned" up his life and returned to become an integral part of the team.
Frattin scored a key goal in North Dakota's playoff victory over rivals the University of Minnesota in the 2010 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) playoffs.[citation needed] At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Frattin won the team's fitness competition after working out extensively during the off-season. In 2010, he also made headlines after the WCHA suspended him for one game due to a hit that he delivered against a Minnesota player.
In the 2010–11 season, Frattin had a highly-productive offensive year, leading the entire NCAA Men's Division I in goal-scoring, with 36, a total eclipsing his combined total from his first three collegiate years combined. His 36 goals was the third-highest single season total in Division I college hockey in the previous ten years, and the most since the University of Minnesota's Ryan Potulny scored 38 in the 2005–06 season. Frattin also set separate eight- and nine-game goal-scoring streaks during the season. He played a key role in North Dakota's success in the playoffs, scoring two game-winning goals in the WCHA playoffs en route to a Frozen Four appearance. At the end of the season, Frattin was named WCHA Player of the Year and was selected as a Hobey Baker Award finalist.
On April 8, 2011, at the end of the WCHA season, Frattin signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played in his first career NHL game the very next day, on April 9. His first career NHL goal was scored in the 2011–12 season on November 19, 2011, against goaltender Tomáš Vokoun of the Washington Capitals.
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Matt Frattin
Matthew Frattin (born January 3, 1988) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He began his NHL career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the organization that drafted him 99th overall in 2007. Frattin also played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings and Columbus Blue Jackets before rejoining Toronto in 2014 via a trade. Frattin spent a further season and a half in the Maple Leafs organization before being included in a nine-player trade with the Ottawa Senators.
At the end of his senior season of college ice hockey with the University of North Dakota, in 2010–11, Frattin was honored as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Player of the Year, also being named a Hobey Baker Award finalist.
Frattin was born in Edmonton, Alberta. As a youth, he played in the 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the North West Hawks minor ice hockey team from Edmonton.
He played junior hockey for the Fort Saskatchewan Traders of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) during the 2006–07 season. After playing junior A ice hockey in Alberta, he was then selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fourth round, 99th overall, of the 2007 NHL entry draft. He then enrolled at the University of North Dakota in 2007.
In August of 2009, Frattin was dismissed from the UND squad due to a DUI -- his second alcohol-related run-in with the police in two months. Despite being offered a professional contract from the Maple Leafs, Frattin opted to return to school. With his scholarship taken away, he took out student loans and decided to earn his way back onto the roster. This was a success, as Frattin "cleaned" up his life and returned to become an integral part of the team.
Frattin scored a key goal in North Dakota's playoff victory over rivals the University of Minnesota in the 2010 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) playoffs.[citation needed] At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Frattin won the team's fitness competition after working out extensively during the off-season. In 2010, he also made headlines after the WCHA suspended him for one game due to a hit that he delivered against a Minnesota player.
In the 2010–11 season, Frattin had a highly-productive offensive year, leading the entire NCAA Men's Division I in goal-scoring, with 36, a total eclipsing his combined total from his first three collegiate years combined. His 36 goals was the third-highest single season total in Division I college hockey in the previous ten years, and the most since the University of Minnesota's Ryan Potulny scored 38 in the 2005–06 season. Frattin also set separate eight- and nine-game goal-scoring streaks during the season. He played a key role in North Dakota's success in the playoffs, scoring two game-winning goals in the WCHA playoffs en route to a Frozen Four appearance. At the end of the season, Frattin was named WCHA Player of the Year and was selected as a Hobey Baker Award finalist.
On April 8, 2011, at the end of the WCHA season, Frattin signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played in his first career NHL game the very next day, on April 9. His first career NHL goal was scored in the 2011–12 season on November 19, 2011, against goaltender Tomáš Vokoun of the Washington Capitals.
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