A new season calls for a new name to kick off Caps Outsider’s ‘Getting to Know the Caps’ series and a name that has been bouncing around the commentary booth in the opening games of the Capitals’ season is Garnet Hathaway. Hathaway is a strong addition to an already talented Capitals line up and moved from the Calgary Flames as a free agent to the Capitals in July this year.
Brought up in Kennebunkport, Maine, Hathaway grew up supporting the Capitals. With his older brother Ephraim supporting the Capitals and Hathaway’s father once working with Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, Hathaway remembers travelling to see the Capitals play the Maple Leafs and viewing the game from Leonsis’s box.