Right wing Derek Mathers has signed an entry-level deal with the Flyers, according to a tweet from the 18-year-old enforcer and announcement from his OHL team.
Mathers was the Flyers final pick of the 2011 draft, selected in the seventh round (206th overall). He spent last season with the Peterborough Petes of the OHL, where he served as an alternate captain and registered nine goals and eight assists in 65 games. He also played nine games with the Flyers AHL affiliate the Adirondack Phantoms on an amateur tryout after the Petes season came to a close this spring.
The deal with the Flyers is for three years, and Mathers will take home 925,000 each season. He is expected to remain in the OHL for another year.
Not much of a goal-scorer, Mathers already has quite a reputation as a tough guy. In two seasons with the Petes, he racked up 348 penalty minutes. In those nine aforementioned games with the Phantoms, he accumulated 26 minutes. HockeyFights.com already has a sizable documentation of his past contests.