Alex Newhook
Montréal Canadiens Center #15
A fast, skilled forward who has never been able to hold a top-6 job or stay healthy long enough to try.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | COL | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | +5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 13:41 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 71 | 13 | 20 | 33 | +11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 113 | 11.5 | 13:34 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 82 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 116 | 12.1 | 13:57 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 55 | 15 | 19 | 34 | -11 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 85 | 17.6 | 16:56 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 82 | 15 | 11 | 26 | -21 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 118 | 12.7 | 15:08 |
| 2025-26 | MTL | 42 | 13 | 12 | 25 | +9 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 61 | 21.3 | 14:29 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 338 | 70 | 81 | 151 | -7 | 88 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 501 | 14.0 | 14:42 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
13 goals and 25 points in 42 games, plus-9, on 14 and a half minutes a night. Prorated across a full season that is a 25-goal pace, and it is the fourth straight year he has not played a full season.
The Finesse Game
The speed is real and it is the thing that keeps getting him chances. He is genuinely quick through the neutral zone, dangerous on the rush, and he can finish when he arrives with the puck.
The trouble is what happens when the play slows down. He is not a cycle player, does not win pucks below the goal line, and his offence largely disappears against structured teams that take away the rush.
61 shots in 42 games is a decent rate and suggests the finishing is not the problem.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 200, and he does not play to that weight. He avoids the interior, is moved off pucks on the wall, and does not forecheck with any bite.
The injuries have been varied rather than chronic, which is either bad luck or something more.
The Intangibles
A sixteenth pick acquired for a first-round pick, which set an expectation he has never met. He has been a useful middle-6 forward for 2 organisations and nothing more.
At 25, on a team with several young forwards passing him, this is the season where he either takes a top-6 spot or becomes a very fast third-liner permanently.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 515 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.3%
- 9th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 22 against. Expected: 19.7 and 22.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 42 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 42 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 89th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.76 a game
- Distance
- 2.26 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.2 mph
- 39th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
5
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 2 assists, 19 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 515 minutes at five-on-five
- Ivan Demidov67%
- Jake Evans11%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- MTL took 49.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 515 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Demidov | 49.1% | 41.0% | 49.8% |
| Oliver Kapanen | 44.3% | 52.7% | 46.5% |
| Lane Hutson | 50.1% | 44.4% | 56.1% |
49.1% together, 41.0% for him apart and 49.8% for Demidov apart. He was worse away from Demidov, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Demidov did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
87 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.