Obviously, Charlie's arrival has been the focus of the off-season. Following her birth, the expanded family stayed in Calgary until late May before heading east to his cottage on Lake of the Woods in Northern Ontario.
"You can't put into words the love my wife and I have for her,'' says the first-time dad. "She's changed our lives for the better.
"This summer, like every summer, you get focused, you do what you need to get prepared for the season, but any sort of down time I had was always with her.
"I usually spend a lot of the off-season fishing, out on the water, but I really didn't care about any of that this year. I was always speeding getting home from workouts because I wanted to spend as much time as possible with my wife and Charlie.
"I can't even remember what I used to do with my free time, to be honest.
"And now, truthfully, I don't really care."
The impact of parenthood is acutely felt by Hamonic, of course, whose own father, Gerald, died of a heart attack when he was 10 years old, inspiring his involvement in extensive community work.
In the early stages of this new adventure, though, pop is only too happy to follow Stephanie's lead.
"She's a pretty amazing mom, to say the least. I'm so fortunate. I've really leaned on her to guide me," he says. "She's much better at it than I am.
"We're learning together but I've got a pretty good teacher. And I had a pretty good example from my parents, of not only showing love but also in giving your kids a strong example of unity in marriage.
"I have a lot of factors in my life, along with my faith, that helped me guide the waters to put myself in the right spot."
From a hockey standpoint, the upcoming season represents a re-set for the organization, and Hamonic himself.
The Hamonic-TJ Brodie tandem, viewed as an ideal complement to the Mark Giordano-Dougie Hamilton pairing last season, took some time to settle in, though, and the season ultimately ended disappointingly, prematurely, for all, outside the playoffs
Hamonic opens this campaign on much more familiar footing.
"Whenever you've been somewhere for a while it helps,'' Hamonic acknowledges. "I think I'm someone who likes to be involved, engaged, with everyone from the staff to my teammates.
"So there's a huge feeling-out process. And it's the first time I'd been through anything like that. Same place, same organization, for seven years, for me, ever since I'd been drafted.
"So there was definitely a learning-curve.
"This year, myself, my family, we're just more comfortable with everything."
With Bill Peters taking the reins, assisted by Ryan Huska and Geoff Ward and the on-ice additions of James Neal, Noah Hanifin, Elias Lindholm, Austin Czarnik and Derek Ryan have reshaped, if not revolutionized, the Calgary roster.
"You finish how we did, everything that happened last year … well, it was obviously a tough situation on a number of levels,'' says Hamonic.
"But when things don't go the way everyone is anticipating, there's going to be change. That's part of this business.
"It was a message to everyone here. We know we can be a lot better. That's understood. We feel the changes we made, the staff we brought in, is going to help our group get to the level we feel we can be and should be.
"We have every avenue as a group to succeed now and it's up to us to get out there and really do what we're capable of, all season long."
