Player Discussion Alex Newhook

[Kobe Armstrong]

Roy and Dach are decent sized players. No issue with that line size wise. Slaf is big and goes on the first.

Next year, Demidov comes in. Laine will be here. Won’t surprise me if Roy and Newhook go to the third line.

That would still make for a soft top-6 and a charmin soft 3rd line, Newhook and Roy don’t hit lol

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

That would still make for a soft top-6 and a charmin soft 3rd line

It makes for a highly skilled top nine.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

It makes for a highly skilled top nine.

Just not compared to the rest of the league

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Just not compared to the rest of the league

That will depend on how good Demidov is.

 

[The Real Timo]

I hear that St Louis is good at developing young players. So why can't he develop Roy who presumably has attitude problems? I can't see Roy playing worse then newhook. He is playing well in Laval and showed that he can play plenty in the NHL last season. Newhook would be a great addition to the Rocket.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

I hear that St Louis is good at developing young players. So why can't he develop Roy who presumably has attitude problems? I can't see Roy playing worse than newhook. He is playing well in Laval and showed that he can play plenty in the NHL last season. Newhook would be a great addition to the Rocket.

Sending him down is part of his development.

 

[WeThreeKings]

But since we have such a small top-6 — do we really want a player like Newhook on the 3rd line? Just seems like he isn’t a great fit

Yes because speed still needs to be an element of your bottom 6.

 

[Vachon23]

I hear that St Louis is good at developing young players. So why can't he develop Roy who presumably has attitude problems? I can't see Roy playing worse then newhook. He is playing well in Laval and showed that he can play plenty in the NHL last season. Newhook would be a great addition to the Rocket.

You can’t teach work ethic/hard working…

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Trade his ass with a pick and a B prospect for a top 4 RHD with sandpaper in his early/mid twenties.

I would do Newhook+Roy+ CGY 1st for a solid, young RHD.

 

[The Real Timo]

You can’t teach work ethic/hard working…

Sure you can. You can teach by example, positive re-enforcement or through violence and pain. Either method should work

 

[HuGort]

Newhook should be better than this. If he doesn't turn it around soon, sounds like possible issue between the ears

 

[CHwest]

I hear that St Louis is good at developing young players. So why can't he develop Roy who presumably has attitude problems? I can't see Roy playing worse then newhook. He is playing well in Laval and showed that he can play plenty in the NHL last season. Newhook would be a great addition to the Rocket.

The best way to develop young players with "attitude" problems is to send them down, has been working for decades. They come back with a fresh love of hard work after riding in busses again for a while. He came in to camp thinking he had it made, and it seems to be a pattern for him. Leave him down for the year would be better for him in the long term. Let hard work become a way of life instead of a way into the big's and then forget again.