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Alex Newhook
Montreal Canadiens Center
The 96th percentile in bursts of speed, and thirty points from thirteen minutes a night.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 159 | 27 | 39 | 66 | +16 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 237 | 11.4 | 13:46 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
14 goals and 16 assists in all 82 games — 30 points — at 13:57 a night, with three game-winners. Even, 116 shots at 12.1 per cent, 22 penalty minutes, with Colorado.
51.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 62nd percentile, with his ice at 43-38 against an expectation of 41.03-38.84 — process and result agreed at both ends.
Thirty points from fourteen minutes on the third line of the defending Stanley Cup champions is a useful season. It is also his third, and the totals read 33 and 30 across the two fuller ones.
Three seasons, 159 games, 66 points.
The Finesse Game
116 shots at a median of 23 feet, 45 per cent from inside twenty and 14 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 18 shots on goal, 1 goal. Inside forty: 96 shots, 13 goals, 13.54 per cent.
Eighteen long shots in eighty-two games is a disciplined chart, and 13.54 per cent from inside forty is respectable rather than remarkable.
21 tip-ins out of 141 tracked attempts.
85.6 mph at the 14th percentile, on twelve slap shots. Soft, and it matters more here than usual because there is not much else driving the goals.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 200, and 22 penalty minutes.
Bursts 2.8 a game, the 96th percentile; top speed 23.1 mph, the 89th. Those are the two best numbers in his file and they are very good ones.
2.22 miles a game, the 25th — a fourteen-minute role, and the distance is the ice time rather than the effort.
He is not a physical forward and does not win pucks by force. The speed is the asset and everything else is ordinary.
The Intangibles
Sixteenth overall in 2019 out of Boston College, three Colorado seasons, and traded to Montreal for two picks inside the first forty of the 2023 draft and a prospect.
49.8 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 45th percentile.
Montreal paid a real price for a twenty-two-year-old who has scored thirty points twice. The bet is the 96th-percentile bursts and the fact that Colorado never gave him more than fourteen minutes. He is about to get more than that, and the season after this one will say whether the bet was right.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**Bursts 2.8 a game, the 96th percentile; top speed 23.1 mph, the 89th.** Those are the two best numbers in his file and they are very good ones.”
“He is not a physical forward and does not win pucks by force.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,030 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.4%
- 62nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.3%
- 63rd 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: 43 for, 38 against. Expected: 41.0 and 38.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2022-23 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.84 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.6 mph
- 39th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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.
Usual linemates
2022-23 with COL · 1030 minutes at five-on-five
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, 2022-23
- The club
- COL took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,030 minutes at five-on-five — 61st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Girard | 50.0% | 52.3% | 53.1% |
| Evan Rodrigues | 55.4% | 49.2% | 57.9% |
| Erik Johnson | 47.3% | 52.8% | 48.5% |
50.0% together, 52.3% for him apart and 53.1% for Girard apart. Girard was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
139 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.