The excitement is in the air. You can feel it all throughout Philadelphia and especially in the Xfinity Mobile Arena on Sunday night. Top prospect Porter Martone signed his entry-level contract just hours before puck drop as the Philadelphia Flyers took on the Dallas Stars in a crucial matchup if this team wanted to be taken seriously as a playoff contender.
To make the excitement grow even further, Martone was seen in the arena meeting with several members of Flyers management during the game. Just over 24 hours after his Michigan State Spartans lost in overtime in the NCAA regional final and he ended his college career, and then just a few hours after the Flyers officially announced that Martone will be signing his rookie deal and joining them for the rest of the season, the 19-year-old winger was seen having a nice and friendly conversation with his new bosses.
Flyers media take extremely bad photos of Porter Martone at the game
We all know this is what happened because it was shown on the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast plain as day. There he was, in high definition and it was clear as day that it was actually him.
But what if I told you that we could also get proof of this happening by several members of the Flyers media posting extremely grainy pictures taken on their Motorola RAZRs from hundreds of feet away? Wouldn’t that be better? Wouldn’t that be completely necessary to do?
Well, you’re in luck because several members of the Flyers media decided to do exactly that and it’s as bad as you expect.
Porter Martone is in the building. pic.twitter.com/Feq4WTI45O
— Anthony SanFilippo (@AntSanPhilly) March 30, 2026
Okay, that’s pretty bad and is just a vague shadow of the player meeting with the Flyers brass. We don’t even get to see Martone’s face or anything — just grainy, pixelated quasi evidence of this happening.
Official. Porter Martone is at the #Flyers game pic.twitter.com/jQXvfdgWT0
— Jackie Spiegel (@jackiespiegel93) March 30, 2026
Hey, at least we get to see what might be the 19-year-old’s face? But with the power of an Android phone from 2014, we get to enjoy what it looks like when you really zoom in and attempt to snap a shot.
Theres the man of the hours. Porter Martone is here. #LetsGoFlyers pic.twitter.com/MRNRRPwRZw
— Brandon J. Sommermann (@B_Sommermann) March 30, 2026
A little clearer and from the same angle, but now we somehow get motion blur on Martone. It feels impossible for Martone to be moving that fast as everyone else is apparently statuesque in their poses around him.
Martone is here pic.twitter.com/MhfYDXs7tn
— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzNHL) March 30, 2026
Maybe the best picture yet and it’s still just what appears to be Martone. If we didn’t already see him on the broadcast and all over social media, meeting with the members of the Flyers front office, it would be hard to tell that that is the former sixth-overall pick right there.
We’ve all been there, unfortunately. You really want to try to get a snap of something from so far away and you zoom in so damn much on a normal phone — not one of those phones you see in commercials where you can see the surface of the moon or whatever — and then it is the blurriest picture ever taken in human history. But, we would advise to not post those pictures and especially not see so many of your colleagues do the same thing and it look so bad.
Maybe it’s just to prove to the online world that they are, in fact, at the game and making use of their credentials. Instead of retweeting the footage from the broadcast, they need to take a picture from their own terrible camera and show it to the world. That might be the only reasoning as to why so many of them decided to post the exact same thing at the exact same time. We get it, you’re there.
Now, we just need to get a picture of what the line rushes look like for Martone’s NHL debut but from hundreds of feet away and the nameplate blurred into a pile of white and black mush.
