John Hayden
Seattle Kraken Center
Thirty-one penalty minutes in 20 games at eight and a half minutes a night, and 321 in 269 career games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | CHI | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4.5 | 11:41 |
| 2017-18 | CHI | 47 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -4 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 7.1 | 10:49 |
| 2018-19 | CHI | 54 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 7.1 | 9:10 |
| 2019-20 | NJD | 43 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 7.7 | 9:43 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 29 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 9.5 | 9:49 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 55 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -12 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3.1 | 10:51 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 22.2 | 7:55 |
| 2023-24 | SEA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:44 |
| 2024-25 | SEA | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.0 | 8:31 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 269 | 18 | 21 | 39 | -30 | 321 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 275 | 6.6 | 9:58 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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 1 assist in 20 games — 2 points at 8:31 a night, with 31 penalty minutes.
There is no five-on-five sample worth reporting and the penalty minutes are the point. A thirteenth forward on a club that finished 27th, dressed on the nights the coach expected a hard one.
The Finesse Game
20 shot attempts in 20 games and 1 goal. 39 points in 269 career NHL games is the whole offensive record.
The puck skills are below NHL standard and the deployment says so. He is not on the ice in any situation where the puck is expected to reach him.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 223 and this is the entire player. He hits extremely hard, he fights, and he is not moved from in front of a net.
31 penalty minutes in 20 games, and 321 in 269 career games. He crosses the line deliberately and that is the job.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick of Chicago in 2013 out of Yale, and nine NHL seasons on from that across five organisations, most of it in the American League.
He is 30. The role is disappearing from the league and there are still clubs that want one.
The numbers underneath
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 158 minutes at five-on-five
- Tye Kartye35%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
30 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.