Confirmed with Link: Alex Newhook for 31st, 37th and Fairbrother

[Max2]

Newhook isn't small.I've stood relatively close to him at the stanley cup thing last year.He is 5'11 and close to 200 pounds .Very solidly built like an Andrei Kovalenko back in the day. He is a very very fast skater with a deceptively quick shot and tenacity and has a cup ring and will bring that experience into the room which counts for something as well. Not worried about this guy at all and he should fit in seamlessly. The hockeywriters said he is the fastest skater after Jack Hughes in that entire draft class

 

[ottawa]

Newhook isn't small.I've stood relatively close to him at the stanley cup thing last year.He is 5'11 and close to 200 pounds .Very solidly built like an Andrei Kovalenko back in the day. He is a very very fast skater with a deceptively quick shot and tenacity and has a cup ring and will bring that experience into the room which counts for something as well. Not worried about this guy at all and he should fit in seamlessly. The hockeywriters said he is the fastest skater after Jack Hughes in that entire draft class

Maybe you're not as tall as you think you are

 

[JRichard]

If he hits 60 pts per year, you landed a legit top 6 players for draft picks we historically spend on guys like Poehling, McCarron, Tinordi, Ylonen, Tuch, De la Rose, Fucale, Struble, Mysak…

I don’t know in what world is that a negative no matter what size the said player is

Doubling his production?
thats your expectations?
you know the west as really weak last year with 3 out of 4 worst teams.

 

[Max2]

Maybe you're not as tall as you think you are

I am 6 feet even barefoot and he was pretty much the same height as me and is built like a brick shithouse with Crosby legs. He's not a waifishly thin 5'11 guy.

 

[River Meadow]

I am 6 feet even barefoot and he was pretty much the same height as me and is built like a brick shithouse with Crosby legs. He's not a waifishly thin 5'11 guy.

 

[Stive Morgan]

@Stive Morgan said that he knows him personally, but he liked the trade.

He has very little chance at cracking an NHL lineup at this point but it was cool to have him in the organization.

 

[MarkJ]

no pressure dude lol

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

As you can see, the draft dried up pretty quickly in the 20s. More than happy to give up 31 and 37 for Newhook.

 

[Wats]

Fact that Cristall was available makes me dislike this deal more. Hopefully I look like an idiot looking back in this thread.

 

[No More Subban]

i really like zach benson in this year's draft. i feel like newhook is the same type of player. hope it works out!

 

[The Great Weal]

As you can see, the draft dried up pretty quickly in the 20s. More than happy to give up 31 and 37 for Newhook.

Idk Cristall seems like a beauty. Wish we only traded one of 31 or 37.

 

[Belial]

Idk Cristall seems like a beauty. Wish we only traded one of 31 or 37.

Statistically, we would just draft busts... At worst, we got an NHLer

 

[Kimota]

The guy on the Sick Show was saying that Fairbrother was one tough dude. That stings a little.

 

[Belial]

The guy on the Sick Show was saying that Fairbrother was one tough dude. That stings a little.

He was not wrong, Brother was hitting people and that was his style.

 

[Toene]

I am 6 feet even barefoot and he was pretty much the same height as me and is built like a brick shithouse with Crosby legs. He's not a waifishly thin 5'11 guy.

Then where do all the remarks about him being weak on the puck and in puck battles come from? I don't know him much. If he can pass, score, fly, has a decent two-way game and is built like a brick shithouse, then why the hell did the Avs trade him when they have a hole at the middle-6 center positions?

 

[ReHabs]

Then where do all the remarks about him being weak on the puck and in puck battles come from? I don't know him much. If he can pass, score, fly, has a decent two-way game and is built like a brick shithouse, then why the hell did the Avs trade him when they have a hole at the middle-6 center positions?

He couldn’t step up, in his third NHL year, to play 2C for a competitive team. That’s a fair criticism of him but Hughes and MSL both acknowledged it.

It’s a lot like the Dach playbook. They feel the player has more than he’s been capable of showing.

 

[Talik Sanis]

Fact that Cristall was available makes me dislike this deal more. Hopefully I look like an idiot looking back in this thread.

Everything that Montreal has done over the last two days turns my stomach.

 

[Belial]

Everything that Montreal has done over the last two days turns my stomach.

Share your amazing ideas so we can feel better!

 

[Talik Sanis]

He couldn’t step up, in his third NHL year, to play 2C for a competitive team. That’s a fair criticism of him but Hughes and MSL both acknowledged it.

It’s a lot like the Dach playbook. They feel the player has more than he’s been capable of showing.

One of the radical differences between the two - aside from talent level and basic skill and size when the team already has a diminutive top six forward core - is that one missed a significant portion of the prior season with an injury and slogged through multiple years on one of the worst teams in the league.

The other looked lost on one of the best teams in the league and floundered with every opportunity granted him.

The reclamation projects are not on the same level in my view.

Share your amazing ideas so we can feel better!

What, wasting good picks on a career third liner and drafting a bottom pairing defenseman over someone who will be putting up a point per game in four years?

 

[Belial]

What, wasting good picks on a career third liner and drafting a bottom pairing defenseman over someone who will be putting up a point per game in four years?

Ok man lmao... I think I found the definition of pessimism...

 

[ReHabs]

One of the radical differences between the two - aside from talent level and basic skill and size when the team already has a diminutive top six forward core - is that one missed a significant portion of the prior season with an injury and slogged through multiple years on one of the worst teams in the league.

The other looked lost on one of the best teams in the league and floundered with every opportunity granted him.

The reclamation projects are not on the same level in my view.

I think you and I are aligned on a lot of topics and perspectives. Nevertheless Hughes and MSL feel like Newhook has unrealized upside, I think it's fair to agree on that -- right?

Hughes knows Newhook very well (being his agent until recently), so maybe he feels like he has insight into the play that others -- not even Colorado -- would have. I don't particularly love the acquisition but it's very much a "well, what do we have here?" situation for me.

 

[Schooner Guy]

i really like zach benson in this year's draft. i feel like newhook is the same type of player. hope it works out!

Different styles. Newhook's much faster and has that thick lower core to generate power. Benson's very cerebral. Both players are skilled and aren't afraid to go to the dirty areas.

 

[LyricalLyricist]

I figure its already been said but don't we have too many forwards now? Have there been any rumors that we'd trade someone?

 

[morhilane]

I figure its already been said but don't we have too many forwards now? Have there been any rumors that we'd trade someone?

There was too many before getting Newhook.

Someone is hopefully traded, maybe once the UFA market dries up since none were at the draft.

 

[Rapala]

So how many fans are going to have an instant hate on for Newhook because we gave up 31 and 37.