Dryden Hunt
Calgary Flames Left Wing
Undrafted, two hundred and thirty games across four clubs, and eight goals for on his ice against eighteen.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | FLA | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 10:34 |
| 2018-19 | FLA | 31 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 5.7 | 11:04 |
| 2019-20 | FLA | 21 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0.0 | 10:30 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 26 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 7.7 | 11:58 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 76 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -10 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 94 | 6.4 | 12:17 |
| 2022-23 | NYR/COL/TOR | 37 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 13.0 | 8:04 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 28 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 9.1 | 11:08 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 230 | 18 | 33 | 51 | -30 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 287 | 6.3 | 11:01 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
3 goals and 5 assists in 28 games — 8 points at 11:08 a night, plus-1, with 1 game-winner on 33 shots at 9.09 per cent, and 7 penalty minutes.
47.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 304 minutes, the 31st percentile. His ice went 8-18 against an expectation of 11.01-12.28 — three goals of scoring missing and six conceded above expectation in three hundred minutes.
The Finesse Game
33 attempts at a median of 27 feet, with 39 per cent from inside 20 and 15 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 9.09 per cent. Eighteen goals in 230 NHL games.
5 assists. He does not create at NHL level and he is not asked to — the job is to get the puck out of his own end and change.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 193. He forechecks honestly and finishes his checks, and he competes on the wall without winning many against size.
7 penalty minutes in 28 games and 121 in 230 for his career. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Red Deer, and 230 NHL games and 51 points at 28 across four clubs, most of the career spent between the NHL and the American league.
An undrafted forward with 230 NHL games has already had the career his draft position implied was impossible, and on this roster he is the thirteenth forward.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 304 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.3%
- 32nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50%
- 54th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 8 for, 18 against. Expected: 11.0 and 12.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 58 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 304 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Rooney25%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.3% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 304 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Andersson | 42.3% | 50.4% | 49.0% |
| Yegor Sharangovich | 42.0% | 49.6% | 53.4% |
| Jonathan Huberdeau | 46.4% | 47.7% | 51.5% |
42.3% together, 50.4% for him apart and 49.0% for Andersson apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
46 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.