He looked much better last season but that pace was also with lots of icetime because Dached missed 80 games, not sure he gets that opportunity ever again.
Right now we have five top six quality players in the lineup. If the team was firing properly he'd be getting decent points and lots of opportunity.
But his icetime is still way down from last season, and soon Laine will be back and will compete for ice- and powerplaytime. Next year they add Demi and who knows who else, it won't get easier for Newhook to get his share of time. Unless he earns it.
He will eventually be on the third line and used as a callup for the top six when player's get injured. If he and say... Joshua Roy join Beck, that'd be a smokin' third line. We'll have some real scoring depth in the lineup.
We’ve had like 3 60 point players in the past decade I find it highly sus to say that Newhook would’ve been one of them
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Right but by that logic Suzuki is a 60point center and we should be looking for our 1C
It’s off topic I apologize - but the scoring being up is an argument that doesn’t get brought up much here and it really puts a damper on positive rebuild vibes. We might finally have a PPG center but it just doesn’t mean what it meant 5-10 years ago. Every team has 1 of those now.
I see him with two goals tonight. And that last one was suwheeeeet.
Which big / mean players do NJD have? I watched them closely last night, their D is as atrocious at missing assignments as Habs only difference is they have Hughes & Bratt firing on all cylinders
