Nashville Predators Executive Vice President/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed restricted free-agent forward Matt Ellison to a one-year contract. Ellison, 23, ranked second in scoring on the American Hockey League?s Philadelphia Phantoms in 2006-07 with 39 points (12g-27a) and appeared in two NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers. The 6-1, 192-pound forward posted NHL career-highs in 2005-06 with 13 points (3g-10a) in 31 games with Chicago and Philadelphia.