Garnet Hathaway

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

76 games, 14 goals and 12 assists at 13:23 a night, plus-19, fifty-seven penalty minutes, 124 shots and four game-winners. Undrafted, and 373 games and a career plus-48 across seven seasons out of it.

The Finesse Game

He started 29.6 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end, the 18th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — 177 attacking-zone shifts against 420 — and took 52.2 per cent of the expected goals out of it, the 69th percentile.

That combination is the file. Almost nobody in the league starts in his own end this often and comes out on the right side of the chances.

Fourteen goals from 124 shots is 11.3 per cent, off 7.31 shots per 60 at the 50th percentile, from a 21-foot median with sixty-five per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet, the 91st percentile.

1.63 even-strength points per 60 is the 40th percentile and none of his twenty-six points came on the power play — none in 373 career games.

His ice went 37-20 against an expectation of 35.78-32.75. A goal ahead in front and nearly thirteen fewer against than the model asked, which is the largest defensive surplus on the club.

The Physical Game

14.74 hits per 60 is the 9th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games, on a thirteen-minute shift.

1.828 penalties drawn per 60 is the 10th-most of the same 393, against 1.59 taken at the 93rd percentile and fifty-seven penalty minutes.

3.66 blocks per 60 is the 7th-most of all 393 forwards. Hits, blocks and calls drawn all inside the top ten in the league, from a man playing thirteen minutes a night out of his own end.

6-2 and 212 pounds, and 421 penalty minutes across 373 career games.

The Intangibles

23.2 mph is the 90th percentile among the 365 tracked forwards and 5.8 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 57th, against 9.69 miles per 60 at the 54th.

He is 30, undrafted out of Brown, with a hundred points in 373 games. The zone starts, the hits, the blocks, the calls drawn and thirteen goals of defensive surplus are as complete a fourth-line file as this book contains. Fourteen goals is a career high and 11.3 per cent is the reason not to expect fifteen.