{"id":439583,"date":"2023-07-12T04:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439583"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:09:10","slug":"montreal-inks-newhook-to-4-year-almost-12-million-dollar-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/montreal-inks-newhook-to-4-year-almost-12-million-dollar-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal inks Newhook to 4-year, almost 12 million dollar contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens inked newly-acquired forward Alex Newhook to a 4-campaign, 11.6 million dollars deal today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Habs sign Alex Newhook to a four-year deal worth an AAV of $2.9M.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on this contract? \u270d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cCvYnpLesr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cCvYnpLesr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1678755816155881472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The restricted free agent will come with a cap hit of almost 3 million dollars under the new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian NHL franchise traded a current year 1<sup>st<\/sup> round pick (31<sup>st<\/sup> overall), a current year 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round pick (37<sup>th<\/sup> overall), and defenceman Gianni Fairbrother to the Colorado Avalanche to add Alex to their roster in June.<\/p>\n<p>Newhook notched 14 goals and had 16 assists in 82 matches with Colorado in the past campaign, his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> season in the National Hockey League. The 22-year-old forward finished with 1 assist in 7 postseason matches.<\/p>\n<p>He played 159 matches with the Avalanche, scored 27 goals and had 39 assists, and gave 4 assists in 12 playoff matches in the franchise run to the Stanley Cup championship triumph in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens inked newly-acquired forward Alex Newhook to a 4-campaign, 11.6 million dollars deal today. Habs sign Alex Newhook to a four-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439584,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20395,17025,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The Canadiens signed the forward to 4 seasons deal."},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439583"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439583"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}