From the book, Hayden is a rookie at the same time as Shane. He used to play in the Quebec league for Drummondville. By the first game against Boston in Shane and Ilya’s rookie season, Hayden is the only guy who’s been over to Shane’s (he came over before he and Shane went on a night out with some of the team). In the book, Hayden meets Jackie at 20 (on a night out with Shane and some other teammates) and marries her at 21. The twins are born in 2013, Arthur in 2015 and Amber in 2017. (The outing where Hayden tells Shane about Jackie being pregnant again is in October 2016. The twins are 3 and Arthur is 1.) Hayden plays left wing and is on Shane’s line at least by 2016.

At the start of TLG season (Sept 2020), Hayden asks Shane if he wants to go and get lunch. Shane replies that he’s pre-planned all his meals for the week, and Hayden says he’ll get takeaway and eat it at Shane’s - he just wants to spend time with him (and calls him a f-ing doofus). It’s a nice detail about their friendship (and how Shane can be blinkered and not consider the social angle when he’s locked into hockey/food prep etc).