If Alexander Hamilton played hockey: goalie, rated 87

Alexander Hamilton as a hockey player: scouting report

Alexander Hamilton would play goalie, the one position where sheer volume of work decides the game. He wrote fifty one of the eighty five essays in The Federalist Papers, far more than James Madison or John Jay, and a goalie with that kind of stamina handles a heavy workload every night and wants more. Goaltending is the best mark on his card. He would never take a shift off and never stop tracking the puck through traffic.

His passing is the second best part of his game, and it suits a goalie who handles the puck like a third defenseman. Hamilton served as an aide de camp to George Washington and later became the first Secretary of the Treasury, building a financial system almost from scratch, so he thinks a step ahead of everyone. Expect stretch passes off the glass, quick outlets to a breaking winger and sharp reads behind the net. His skating is strong for a goalie, which means fast lateral pushes post to post. Born in the Caribbean and arriving in New York as a teenager, he is a model of a self made player.

His finishing touch is the weakest part of his card, which barely matters for a goalie but means he is not a skater at heart. Center and defenseman are distant second and third options. Draft him as a starting goalie early, give him puck moving defensemen who can use his outlets, and let a work ethic that has its own hit Broadway musical carry your team through the long season.

Plays like A workhorse goalie who stops everything and starts the breakout

Put Alexander Hamilton in your lineup

8 rolls, a starting six and a bench, 82 games. Can you go 82-0? Free, no account.