Dryden Hunt
New York Rangers: 3 games, 1 goal, 1 point, 11 hits, 8:49 ATOI
Colorado Avalanche: 25 games, 1 goal, 1 point, 58 hits, 7:51 ATOI
Toronto Maple Leafs: 9 games, 1 goal, 1 point, 31 hits, 8:26 ATOI
Claimed on waivers by Colorado after only three games with the Rangers, Dryden Hunt helped filled out an Avalanche roster decimated by injuries. When they got healthy, they swapped him with the Maple Leafs for center Denis Malgin. After a cup of coffee in Toronto he was sent to the Calgary Flames for Radim Zahorna. He was immediately sent to the AHL where he is currently playing.
Hunt has scored one goal for each of his three NHL teams this season and has made his mark with his physical play, the reason most coaches are enamored of him. But despite that fact, his lack of offensive production that dogged him in New York has continued and he remains a marginal NHL player.
The fact is that Hunt was signed as a UFA for the NHL minimum and he helped fill out the Rangers roster. He cost next to nothing and the Rangers got nothing in return for him.
Our last of “the departed” is a player who had a lot of fans among the Blueshirts Faithful, but that was based on glimpses of size, speed, and skill and not on results.