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

[Help]

great. now find a way to get dawson mercer and we're set

 

[Andrei79]

WTF did we get into?

The Avs forced Newhook at centre and it didn’t work?

Lemme guess — apologists and enablers will be charging in with « MSL and Nicholas will fix him ».

I'm willing to see how Newhook does, he was one of the players I wanted in 2019. The wildcard is the strength of the draft. They traded two top 40 picks. If this ends up another Girard/Debrincat they'll be criticized and with good reason.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

They basically traded the 37 pick for Newhook . Florida pick was basically free for us and Fairweather won't amount to anything. You won't get a better player at 37 than him plus he is NHL ready.Don't have to wait for 3 or 4 years

Wtf is that take? Florida pick was free? We paid an asset for the pick!

 

[Runner77]

yup... just can't keep adding this type of size

Couldn’t we have sent Mesar or Farrell the other way and kept one of the picks? Smurf for Smurf.

 

[Wats]

Overpayment and the move also feels rushed and unnecessary, I don't like it.

Hughes sure loves his redemption projects but he won't hit on all of them, I wish he had kept the picks this time. Bottom line is this year was beyond garbage and we'll end up with Newhook and Leonard as consolision prizes instead of game breaking talent. Tomorro

2 years of tanking with all the dreams of top line players, we end up with Slaf, Dach, Newhook, and Leonard/Reinbacher/Dvorsky. Can't say much outside we can only hope.

 

[HuGort]

Left shot, Newhook may play with Suzuki and Caufield

 

[JoelWarlord]

Other piece that's I think important here is that of Newhook's 30P, 28 came at even strength and his per 60 numbers are pretty solid. I don't think they're making this trade with the intention of using him as a 3C, to me this is to plug him in on the wing and see if you can unlock the speed and offensive upside that way.

I don't think this is exactly a consolation prize/reactionary move for missing on Dubois either, they just simply wouldn't have had the cap to do both so once Dubois was off the table they went with plan B (and this likely means we're going to eat another bad 1yr contract for another pick, likely Josh Bailey or Tyler Myers).

 

[Andrei79]

Not sure what to think. Really liked him his draft year but this price seems steep considering he hasn’t really done much. But he was also down the lineup.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.

 

[Kosseca]

My bad.

Unimpressive, so use Farrell to upgrade instead of collecting more at best middle 6 players.

The guys is nowhere near ready for the NHL.... he needs time in laval

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Gally close LITRement
Pinard bottom 6
Farrell will never make it
Mesar will never nake it

Nothing worrying

Farrell and Mesar are prospects BUT it is worrisome that we picked a very valuable 26th overall pick for a player we are already thinking one year later that he won't make it. If it was a 4th round pick like Farrell, fine, but a 1st round pick. Ouch.

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

People keep saying a 1st and a 2nd but the 1st was 31 overall lol

If the Florida pick was in the mid first I’d be questioning it, but 31 was well outside the drop off of the 4th tier of this draft. You’re talking about guys who probably never make the NHL or if they do are dime a dozen players.

Newhook has star upside, he’s an elite skater with high skill, high IQ, and a great shot.

 

[eklund the clown]

I just hope the trade was done analytically rather than emotionally. If it was a trade based on the latter, HuGo is not going to work in this market.

If they see something they can unlock in newhook, fine. I just don't want it to be reactionary to the pld fallout..... Even though I wasn't in favour of going after pld in the first place.

Ya mean like when Bergevin screwed up the KK debacle then traded that 1st for Dvorak ?

 

[1909]

I was hoping Hughes would keep of of these two picks (late 1st or early second rounder) to pick a good prospect goalie. I hope he has other trades up his sleeves to do so.

As for Newhook, I don't see where they gonna fit him. Suzuki anmd Dach are the first two centermen, Beck is not that far to the 3rd line center duties either. And Monahan and Dvorak are still around.

Unless he packages Newhook + ???? to Winnipeg for Dubois ?????

 

[Habs Halifax]

Back to back 30 points, with how much they traded for him there's no way he'll be that cheap IMO.

I would have just arbitrated Gurianov instead.

Actually, I think Newhook should get something close to what Gurianov got in a bridge

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

It would be hilarious if Newhook ends up producing more than Vilardi and Dubois next season

He will eventually produce more than either.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

 

[Mrb1p]

Steep price but I love Newhook. Remains to be seen if he still has that star upside I thought he had in 2019.

 

[Kimota]

I guess they saw something in this guy.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Best of luck to Newy with you guys.

Didn’t work out in Colorado. They tried him at Centre and it didn’t click. Maybe it was too much expectations early in his career to do so for a contending team.

Hopefully he improves in Montreal and it’s a win-win for both teams.

 

[FerrisRox]

It's fine if ppl don't like the price but this talk of this being a Bergevin style trade is really out there.

Don't even waste your time with "trade evaluations" here.

HFHabs is, by far, the most clueless fanbase on this entire site when it comes to players who play on other teams.

For many, many years, this title was held by the Maple Leafs Forum, but about ten years ago the tide started to turn and a lot of great posters from the Habs Forum left or got chased out and have been replaced by a strange hybrid of extremely opinionated posters who somehow don't seem to care if they actually know what they are talking about before they form their opinions.

Just go back to the original Dach trade thread. I just gave up on responding on the day of the thread because it was plainly obvious that they didn't have the faintest idea what kind of player Dach was, they simply went to his hockeydb page and then started complaining.

You're wasting your time.

 

[SergeConstantin74]

Wtf is that take? Florida pick was free? We paid an asset for the pick!

Chiarot wasn't an asset, he was pretty much gone.

 

[Treb]

I would still like Dach's upside more. 3rd OA pick vs 16th. If Newhook had the same height, maybe yeah, but not the same potential due to where they were drafted.

We paid more for Dach so it's expected.

 

[Mrb1p]

Very steep tho

 

[Runner77]

I think Newhook is being underrated here.

I think optimizing asset mix is being underrated here.

Why did we not ship out Mesar or Farrell instead?

 

[Oilers in NS]

What do we know about him?

he is a Newfie