The Philadelphia Flyers have signed forward Garnet Hathaway to a two-year contract, the club announced Saturday evening.
Hathaway, 31, split the 2022–23 season between the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins, collecting 13 goals and 22 points in 84 games.
The Kennebunkport, Maine, product added an assist in seven postseason games as the Bruins fell to the Florida Panthers in surprise fashion in the first round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Hathaway’s new contract with the Flyers carries an annual cap hit of $2.375 million, representing a modest pay raise from the $1.5 million he made per-year on his previous deal with the Capitals.
The Calgary Flames originally signed Hathaway as an undrafted free agent out of Brown University in 2015. He parlayed an AHL deal with the Adirondack Flames into an NHL deal with the club beginning in the 2015–16 season.
Hathaway made his NHL debut with the Flames during the 2015–16 season and appeared in parts of four seasons with the club before leaving to sign a four-year deal with the Capitals as an unrestricted free agent in 2019.
After four reasonably productive seasons in a depth role with the Capitals, Hathaway was sent to the Bruins alongside Dmitry Orlov ahead of the 2023 trade deadline. In return, the Capitals received a 2023 first-round pick, a 2025 second-round pick, a 2024 third-round pick and forward Craig Smith.
Through 457 games over parts of eight NHL seasons spent with the Flames, Capitals and Bruins, Hathaway has collected 58 goals and 122 points. He has added three goals and six points in 31 career playoff contests split between the three teams.
Hathaway will now compete for playing time under John Tortorella on a Flyers team that also features Travis Konecny, Joel Farabee, Scott Laughton, Nicolas Deslauriers, Owen Tippett, Ryan Poehling, Noah Cates and Morgan Frost at the forward position.
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