He made time to visit the campus the day before Colorado faced the Bruins last weekend
Coach Jerry York quickly learned to take cover from Alex Newhook’s shenanigans. Then a freshman in York’s Boston College program, Newhook always liked to douse himself with water before his hockey games, but now the ritual was expanding.
Oddly enough, it worked. Already an impact player, Newhook’s tradition made him equally effective as a hype beast. “Some guys started to get in on it,” he said. “Ended up becoming a team thing, which is a bit funny.” That quality can be difficult to channel while struggling on the ice. Visiting the alma mater is a nice way to rediscover it. Newhook has been an integral thread in the story of the 2022-23 Colorado Avalanche so far, seemingly in three parts: his tryout phase at second-line center, his period of scrutiny from coach Jared Bednar for a lack of production after moving to wing, and his recent steady uptick – which has crucially coincided with Colorado’s injury swarm.
That wasn’t Bednar’s impression at the 14-game mark when Newhook was stuck at three points entering a one-on-one, York’s discovery of Newhook was unorthodox: He received a call from an old friend who owned a restaurant in Cape Cod. There was a family from Newfoundland, Canada, that visited the cape multiple summers and always got into hockey conversations with him at the restaurant. “Their son is supposed to be very, very good,” York remembers being told.
York is retired, but Ayers still coaches. He and Newhook used to hit the ice at 8 a.m. on Newhook’s request, before classes started. They experimented with different angles where Newhook could find space to create for himself. “He wanted feedback all the time,” Ayers said. “Some kids thrive off only hearing positive stuff. He wanted to hear everything.”
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