Confirmed with Link: Newhook traded to Montreal for 31st & 37th overall & Gianni Fairbrother

[The Abusement Park]

AJ must have Newhook pegged as the 2C for sure.

Guy has no idea how to evaluate talent as a prominent media member.

”Prominent”.

 

[Alienblood]

Bit of a bummer he never took the leap, but great return considering he didn't take that leap.

I have to imagine something big is going down by tomorrow...

Lindholm

 

[lionsDen]

I’m gonna break shit if we draft another midget that can’t skate

 

[Alienblood]

Screw the picks. I want more of THIS

We need some of this too.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

I’m gonna break shit if we draft another midget that can’t skate

I’m going to break shit if we are drafting any player at all tomorrow.

I want to win the Stanley Cup next season. f*** these picks.

 

[Alienblood]

Somehow kept pulling him in boxes. Now I just need CMac to flip Girard to Toronto in a package for Nylander and I'll be eating good this week.

Nylander wants 10 mil no thanks

 

[Avs_19]

From LeBrun:

Once the Habs realized they were out on Pierre-Luc Dubois, they focused their efforts on Alex Newhook. Obviously, it’s a step down in talent from Dubois, but just as GM Kent Hughes saw an upside play on Kirby Dach a year ago, he sees one in the 22-year-old Newhook, who was a 2019 first-round pick. It’s the type of gamble that makes sense for where Montreal is in its continued roster makeover.

The Jets/Kings deal really did help the Avs pull off this move. Just a bit of a step down for the Habs.

 

[Foppa2118]

History of #18 for the Avalanche:

Adam Deadmarsh - 7 seasons - Traded
Chris Drury - 1 season - Traded
Alex Tanguay - 3 seasons - Traded
Brian Willsie - 2 seasons - UFA
Stephane Yelle - 1 season - Retired
Brandon Yip - 2 seasons - Waived
Mike Connolly - 1 season - UFA
Shawn Matthias - 1 season - UFA
Cody Goloubef - 1 season - UFA
Derick Brassard - 1 season - UFA
Alex Newhook - 3 seasons - Traded

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

I’m going to break shit if we are drafting any player at all tomorrow.

I want to win the Stanley Cup next season. f*** these picks.

Truth..

Let's go. We have the ammunition to make a great team. Let's do it!!

 

[Bone Breaker]

From LeBrun:



The Jets/Kings deal really did help the Avs pull off this move. Just a bit of a step down for the Habs.

yeah just a bit of "a step down". lol more like two freaking firefighting turntable ladders, Id say.



after the Johansen deal, now this... I think people should start considering a "We love you, CMac" thread. he deserves. turning NewJost into a 1st, 2nd and a prospect is obscene. now the Avs have a ton of possibilities going into the draft. can trade up, can pick all three (including our 1st), can trade some, can trade all, can pick a freaking goalie ffs, etc

 

[katfude]

I didn't know Newhook speaks French!

 

[Tommy Shelby]

History of #18 for the Avalanche:

Adam Deadmarsh - 7 seasons - Traded
Chris Drury - 1 season - Traded
Alex Tanguay - 3 seasons - Traded
Brian Willsie - 2 seasons - UFA
Stephane Yelle - 1 season - Retired
Brandon Yip - 2 seasons - Waived
Mike Connolly - 1 season - UFA
Shawn Matthias - 1 season - UFA
Cody Goloubef - 1 season - UFA
Derick Brassard - 1 season - UFA
Alex Newhook - 3 seasons - Traded

And the curse started with selling Deadmarsh's soul for a Stanley Cup

 

[RoyIsALegend]

And the curse started with selling Deadmarsh's soul for a Stanley Cup

Worth it.

 

[BrickNHL]

History of #18 for the Avalanche:

Adam Deadmarsh - 7 seasons - Traded
Chris Drury - 1 season - Traded
Alex Tanguay - 3 seasons - Traded
Brian Willsie - 2 seasons - UFA
Stephane Yelle - 1 season - Retired
Brandon Yip - 2 seasons - Waived
Mike Connolly - 1 season - UFA
Shawn Matthias - 1 season - UFA
Cody Goloubef - 1 season - UFA
Derick Brassard - 1 season - UFA
Alex Newhook - 3 seasons - Traded

I really expected so much more from Brassard and Matthias

 

[The Abusement Park]

I really expected so much more from Brassard and Matthias

Matthias was really good his time here no?

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[expatriatedtexan]

What’s the best player the Avs could realistically get if they combined 27, 31, and 37? Maybe even add next year’s 1st.

I'd like to see those picks along with one of our LD to Arizona for Hayton and Crouse.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

They still haven’t flipped them?

 

[niwotsblessing]

Friedman reads HF Avs.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Newhook sucked so I’m all in favor of the trade.

Now trade the picks, you can't draft outside the top 10 and we all know it.

 

[AvsFan29]

CMac was given a Cup winner, that needed 1 thing to have a legit shot, and he ignored it for an entire season, costing us another shot at a potential deep run and maybe a 2nd Cup.

We lost to Seattle because our depth scoring disappeared (or wasn't even there to begin with).

 

[TruePowerSlave]

The Avs have no trade assets was said. Even a bum like Hook fetched a nice return. They have the pieces to be really active if they want.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I assume the Avs are still interested in trying to bring JTC back, otherwise, I'm sure a team would've thrown a late pick or future considerations our way to get an early jump on contract talks.

That being said if anyone wanted to talk to our UFAs early, I'd make it damn clear they are able to for a late pick.

I'm not sure we have the assets, or that it would be a wise use of them, to trade up into the top 10. But that is the only way I want this organization to keep those 2 1sts, and the 2nd.

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

We’ll always have Paris, or in this instance, a novice attempt at Beerfest’s Long Pour.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I've been really hard on Newhook this last season, but that doesn't mean I didn't like him as a player or most definitely as a person. My gripes about him as a player is that I don't think he ever realistically had 2C upside, and while he shows some flashes of talent, he just kept getting yanked around and wasn't able to define a roll for himself.

We are a cup contending team, with loads of talent and competition for ice-time and slots. Montreal, not so much. I think a couple of years of playing on a rebuilding team without as much pressure will allow him to develop better into an NHL player than getting continuously bounced around here. I hope he takes this as an opportunity and runs with it and really do wish him the best.