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Garnet Hathaway

672 games, undrafted, and 1 goal.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	CGY	14	0	3	3	-1	31	0	0	0	11	0.0	12:01
2016-17	CGY	26	1	4	5	0	44	0	0	0	22	4.5	9:08
2017-18	CGY	59	4	9	13	+3	88	0	1	0	68	5.9	11:32
2018-19	CGY	76	11	8	19	+14	56	0	2	5	77	14.3	10:32
2019-20	WSH	66	9	7	16	+6	79	0	0	1	80	11.3	10:47
2020-21	WSH	56	6	12	18	+7	66	0	0	0	62	9.7	12:19
2021-22	WSH	76	14	12	26	+19	57	0	0	4	124	11.3	13:23
2022-23	WSH/BOS	84	13	9	22	+5	69	0	0	3	88	14.8	11:48
2023-24	PHI	82	7	10	17	-7	132	0	1	1	103	6.8	12:29
2024-25	PHI	67	10	11	21	+5	58	0	2	1	80	12.5	11:52
2025-26	PHI	66	1	2	3	-6	59	0	0	0	34	2.9	10:24
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	672	76	87	163	+45	739	0	6	15	749	10.2	11:37

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

1 goal and 2 assists in 66 games — 3 points, minus-6, at 10:24 a night with 59 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Philadelphia.

The Finesse Game

61 unblocked attempts and 1 goal. 163 points in 672 career games, which is a quarter of a point per game across 11 seasons.

There is nothing here and nothing pretended.

The Physical Game

6-2, 212, and the entire proposition. 59 penalty minutes, a genuine willingness to fight, and one of the more physically committed forecheckers in the league at 34.

He hits everything, he finishes every check, and he has built a 672-game career out of a skill set that scouts told him was not enough.

The Intangibles

The numbers are better than the scoring: 47.4 per cent of the expected goals, 32nd percentile — but only 45 per cent of the shot attempts, 18th. His line gets outshot and gives up little that is dangerous, which is the signature of a checking fourth line doing its job.

The goals went 13-19 against him in 612 minutes, which is a poor margin.

He is 34, undrafted out of Brown, and Florida has now assembled Hathaway, Gudas, Bennett and both Tkachuks. That is a deliberate roster built for 1 month of the year, and this is what one of the parts costs.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
37.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 612 minutes

Expected goals: 47.4%; 32nd pct
Shot attempts: 44.8%; 11th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 13 for, 19 against. Expected: 16.7 and 18.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

15th

Numbers

32nd

The two rank him within 17 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 66 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.86 a game
Distance: 1.77 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.1 mph; 38th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 1 assists, 13 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with PHI · 612 minutes at five-on-five

Rodrigo Abolsoff the roster42%
Sean Couturier28%
Nikita Grebenkin25%

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, 2025-26

The club: PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.4% — 3.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 612 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Rodrigo Abols	40.9%	52.0%	43.1%
Jamie Drysdale	40.9%	51.0%	52.2%
Travis Sanheim	53.4%	44.1%	50.9%

40.9% together, 52.0% for him apart and 43.1% for Abols apart. He was better away from Abols, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Abols.

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

61 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 38% from beyond forty.