Garnet Hathaway

The Bruins have made a huge splash ahead of the 2023 NHL trade deadline by acquiring defenseman Dmitry Orlov and right wing Garnet Hathaway from the ...

He's a pain in the butt to play against and constantly gets under opponents' skin. He plays a physical style of hockey, he can kill penalties and has 74 games of playoff experience, including a Stanley Cup ring from the 2017-18 Capitals roster. Orlov has tallied 19 points (three goals, 16 assists) in 43 games.

As the long-time Metropolitan heavyweight looks to climb back into the playoffs, the Capitals' brass seems to be doing their due diligence this upcoming trade ...

Much like Orlov, Hathaway achieved a career-high in points last season, scoring 26 points in 76 games for the Capitals. Joining Orlov as a scratch, Hathaway also finds himself likely headed out of the nation’s Capital in a few days. However, unlike the other teams ahead of them in the standings, the Capitals are trending in the wrong direction. Scoring a career-high 35 points during the 2021-22 season, Orlov has become a valuable asset. [Pierre LeBrun of TSN reports](https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1628878949139767297) that Capitals defenseman [Dmitry Orlov](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/o/orlovdm01.html?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&utm_campaign=2023-02-23_hr) will sit out of tonight’s game against the Anaheim Ducks for that exact reason. As things currently sit, the Capitals are two points out of the last wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

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Hathaway, 31, has recorded 76 points (38g, 38a) in 257 games with the Capitals. In 831 career games with Boston and the Nashville Predators, Smith has recorded 408 points (195g, 213a). – The Washington Capitals have acquired a first-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, a third-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and forward Craig Smith from the Boston Bruins in exchange for defenseman Dmitry Orlov and forward Garnet Hathaway, senior vice president and general manager Brian MacLellan announced today. Smith, 33, has recorded 10 points (4g, 6a) in 42 games with the Bruins this season. The Capitals also own seven selections in the 2024 NHL Draft – their first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh-round picks, as well as Boston’s third-round pick – and eight selections in the 2025 NHL Draft. Hathaway, also 31, was signed by the Capitals in 2019.

Orlov, 31, has been a staple on the Capitals' blue line for a decade now and is in the final year of his contract. In an otherwise frustrating year for ...

The Bruins already had a stacked blue line with players like [Charlie McAvoy](/nhl/players/2245507/charlie-mcavoy/), [Hampus Lindholm](/nhl/players/2000665/hampus-lindholm/) and [Matt Grzelcyk](/nhl/players/2271613/matt-grzelcyk/) eating big minutes. With Orlov and Hathaway both pending free agents, Washington chose to flip them for draft capital that will help the team reload around its current core of veterans. Hathaway, who has nine goals and seven assists this season, will provide the Bruins with a bottom-six option at forward.

The Boston Bruins acquired defenseman Dmitry Orlov and forward Garnet Hathaway from the Washington Capitals on Thursday in exchange for forward Craig Smith ...

“Garnet has been an important part of our team and a role model off the ice for his contributions to our community. The Wild got a draft pick for helping facilitate a trade for the second time in less than a week. The Wild got a 2025 fourth-round pick from Toronto for retaining salary in the deal that sent Ryan O’Reilly and ex-Bruins forward Noel Acciari from St. Orlov, 31, was a homegrown player for Washington and helped the team win the Stanley Cup in 2018. The Capitals retained half of Orlov’s salary and Minnesota will pay 25%; the Wild will receive a 2023 fifth-rounder for helping Boston stay under the cap. Despite starting the year without top scorer Brad Marchand and top defenseman Charlie McAvoy, who were both recovering from offseason surgery, the Bruins zoomed to the top of the NHL standings.

The Stanley Cup arms race continued in the Eastern Conference on Thursday, with the Boston Bruins' acquisition of Dmitry Orlov and Garnet Hathaway from the ...

Despite the fact that the Wild lost $12.7 million in cap space this season due to their buyouts of Ryan Suter and Zach Parise in 2021, the club has not used any long-term injured reserve space. So while the buyouts will continue to limit the club’s cap space in future seasons, Minnesota GM Bill Guerin currently has more than $11 million in cap space for this season available at the deadline, Does the decision to part ways with Orlov and Hathaway indicate that the Capitals are folding their hand and preparing to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2014? Smith had become a bit of a spare part in Boston this season, healthy-scratched at times and placed on waivers by the Bruins back in December. Last week, the Wild received a fourth-round pick in 2025 from Toronto in return for being the middleman in the O’Reilly deal. Boston received the rights to 26-year-old Andrei Svetlakov, a center who has played his entire career to date in his native Russia. That GM makes the original trade and receives the player at 50% of his cap hit, then retains half of that number so that the final acquiring club ultimately bears just 25% of the original cap and cash burdens. They dealt the rights to Josh Pillar, a 21-year-old winger who’s currently playing in Canada’s Western Hockey League, to Toronto. He missed a month of action early in the season due to a lower-body injury. The sturdy Russian, who checks in at 5’11” and 214 pounds, has spent his entire career with the Washington Capitals, who drafted him in the second round in 2009. He has averaged more than 200 hits a year over his past five seasons and has served as a key penalty killer for the Capitals. Over the last few weeks, Boston had been rumored to be the team most interested in acquiring defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov.

The Boston Bruins acquired Dmitry Orlov and Garnet Hathaway from Washington on Thursday, adding depth, grit, physicality and someone who can play a lot of ...

The Bruins are already a hard team to play against in the trenches. Winning games at the hardest time of year in the playoffs takes a combination of skill and will (some nights more will than skill). He’s hard to play against and can be a distraction that opponents need to be aware of. And while Orlov is the headliner, Hathaway is surely about to become a fan favourite in Beantown. He’s used in all situations, contributes secondary offence, can match up against second line opponents on the road, and is more than willing to engage physically. Craig Smith is also heading to Washington, his $3.1 million expiring contract helping make the cap math work in the deal.

Boston needs 19 wins to break the league record for wins (62). The roster assembled by Don Sweeney and led by Jim Montgomery has held court as the league's ...

… I think as a group, we have to understand that we generally haven’t started the playoffs with the same six guys and finished it that way. Yes, the Bruins have the means to land some welts against whatever matchup comes their way in April and May. Orlov may not be a blueliner whose primary avenue of offense is by clapping shots from the point. If a similar situation arises this spring, Orlov’s arrival means that one of Forbort, Grzelcyk or Clifton will be ready as the first wave of reinforcements. The Bruins were already going to be a tough out this postseason. The Bruins are already a tough team to play against, given their stout defensive structure and two-way acumen. On a bottom-six grouping that already features some heft in players like Trent Frederic and Nick Foligno, Hathaway will welcome the role as Boston’s physical equalizer. And for the first time in a long time, Boston is getting secondary-scoring contributions over a consistent clip. “I think I use the word, ‘anxiety,’” Sweeney said of the physical presence that Orlov and Hathaway provide. But Hathaway is the classic thorn-in-your-side player that drives opposing fan bases crazy — and has opposing skaters looking over their shoulders when retrieving pucks. “Overall, I think our group does a really good job of responding to physical challenges and we can play any type of game. If they capture another 40 points in their last 25 games, they’d break the NHL record for the most points in a single campaign.