Matt Martin (ice hockey player, 1989)

Matt Martin
Date of birth	May 8, 1989
place of birth	Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 5th round, 148th position New York Islanders
Career stations
2006-2009	Sarnia Sting
2009-2016	New York Islanders
2016-2018	Toronto Maple Leafs
since 2018	New York Islanders

Matthew "Matt" Martin (born May 8, 1989 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL) since July 2018 and there on the position of the left winger plays.

Career

Matt Martin began his career as a hockey player with the Sarnia Sting , for which he was active in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League from 2006 to 2009 . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in the fifth round as a total of 148th player by the New York Islanders , for which the winger made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2009/10 season . He gave two assists in five games. However, he spent the rest of the season with the Islanders' farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , in the American Hockey League . In the 2010/11 season , the Canadian will again play for the Islanders in the NHL and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the AHL.

In the 2011/12 season , Martin finally made the leap into the NHL roster of the Islanders, so that he was on the ice in 80 games. This season he also set a new NHL record. With 374 hits , he has since held the NHL record for the most body checks in one season, set since 2005.

After seven years in New York, his contract was not renewed after the 2015/16 season, so Martin joined the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent in July 2016 . He was active there for two years before the Maple Leafs transferred him back to the New York Islanders in July 2018 in exchange for Eamon McAdam .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2006/07	Sarnia Sting	OHL		39	3	3	6th	+4	52		4th	0	0	0	± 0	0
2007/08	Sarnia Sting	OHL		66	25th	13	38	+3	155		9	3	3	6th	+2	16
2008/09	Sarnia Sting	OHL		61	35	30th	65	+6	142		5	3	0	3	-3	10
2009/10	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		76	12	19th	31	± 0	113		5	1	2	3	± 0	4th
2009/10	New York Islanders	NHL		5	0	2	2	-1	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		7th	1	2	3	± 0	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Islanders	NHL		68	5	9	14th	-13	147		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	New York Islanders	NHL		80	7th	7th	14th	-17	121		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Islanders	NHL		48	4th	7th	11	-2	63		6th	1	0	1	± 0	14th
2013/14	New York Islanders	NHL		79	8th	6th	14th	–11	90		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Islanders	NHL		78	8th	6th	14th	-4	114		7th	0	1	1	+1	12
2015/16	New York Islanders	NHL		80	10	9	19th	+2	119		11	0	0	0	-1	12
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		82	5	4th	9	± 0	123		6th	0	2	2	-2	6th
2017/18	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		50	3	9	12	± 0	50		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Islanders	NHL		67	6th	8th	14th	+5	53		8th	0	0	0	-4	0
OHL total				166	63	46	109	+13	349		18th	6th	3	9	-1	26th
AHL total				83	13	21st	34	± 0	124		5	1	2	3	± 0	4th
NHL overall				637	56	67	123	-41	906		38	1	3	4th	–6	44

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Matt Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the New York Islanders website
• Matt Martin at eliteprospects.com (English)