Calgary Flames: Get to Know New Flame Travis Hamonic

LAS VEGAS, NV – JUNE 21: Travis Hamonic of the New York Islanders at the 2017 NHL Awards on June 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty Images)

During the second day of the 2017 NHL Entry Level Draft, the Calgary Flames acquired D Travis Hamonic in a trade. But who is Hamonic? Let’s get to know him here.

It was an exciting month of June for the Calgary Flames and GM Brad Treliving was a busy man. Some fun trades and signings took place, one being a trade for D Travis Hamonic from the New York Islanders. The Flames acquired Hamonic during the second round of the 2017 NHL Entry Level Draft for three draft picks, and the Flames also got another draft pick in return.

With the Flames not having a draft pick in the first three rounds next season, this shows that management is fully confident in the Flames being Cup Contenders next season. Even Treliving said that they’re ready.

With losing the somewhat-of-an-anchor that was Dennis Wideman, Flames fans were excited for the season to end. Especially after that disastrous first round. And now with adding D Travis Hamonic to the defence core, their blue-line is stacked.

But who is Travis Hamonic? He has been playing on the East Coast his entire NHL career, so Flames fans don’t get to see a lot of him. We already know about all the off-ice work he does with the community, which can be found here in case you’d like to know what a stand-up kind of guy he is.

But let’s take a look at his statistics:

standard NHL career statistics
		Scoring			Goals	Assists	Shots	Ice Time
Season	Age	Tm	Lg	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TSA	TOI	ATOI	FOW	FOL	FO%	HIT	BLK	TK	GV	Awards
2010-11	20	NYI	NHL	62	5	21	26	4	103	4	1	0	0	17	3	1	118	4.2	256	1338	21:34	0	0		116	115	42	48
2011-12	21	NYI	NHL	73	2	22	24	6	73	1	1	0	0	17	5	0	124	1.6	294	1637	22:26	0	0		170	157	37	52
2012-13	22	NYI	NHL	48	3	7	10	-8	28	2	1	0	1	4	2	1	83	3.6	189	1095	22:48	0	0		59	109	34	46
2013-14	23	NYI	NHL	69	3	15	18	2	68	1	2	0	0	14	1	0	134	2.2	308	1726	25:01	0	0		93	132	40	51
2014-15	24	NYI	NHL	71	5	28	33	15	85	4	1	0	0	21	7	0	132	3.8	306	1547	21:47	0	0		213	131	27	56
2015-16	25	NYI	NHL	72	5	16	21	-5	35	4	0	1	1	16	0	0	147	3.4	331	1715	23:49	0	0		148	128	44	61
2016-17	26	NYI	NHL	49	3	11	14	-21	60	3	0	0	0	10	1	0	74	4.1	157	1002	20:27	0	0		58	108	14	39
Career			NHL	444	26	120	146	-7	452	19	6	1	2	99	19	2	812	3.2	1841	10060	22:39	0	0		857	880	238	353

Provided by Hockey-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/28/2017.

Hamonic has played in the playoffs twice in his NHL career. Let’s check that out:

NHL Playoffs Table
		Scoring		Goals				Ice Time
Season	Age	Tm	Lg	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TSA	TOI	ATOI	FOW	FOL	FO%	HIT	BLK	TK	GV
2012-13	22	NYI	NHL	6	0	1	1	-4	23	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	20	150	24:59	0	0		20	10	2	2
2015-16	25	NYI	NHL	11	1	2	3	-2	8	1	0	0	0	12	8.3	36	288	26:08	0	0		27	22	6	15
Career			NHL	17	1	3	4	-6	31	1	0	0	0	18	5.6	56	437	25:44	0	0		47	32	8	17

Provided by Hockey-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/28/2017.

We can see that he doesn’t quite put up a bunch of points a season. But that’s alright! We talked to Michel Anderson, site expert for Eyes on Isles, our friends over at the New York Islanders side of FanSided, to give us some more insight on Travis Hamonic! Here is what he had to say.