{"id":683122,"date":"2026-05-20T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:24:12","slug":"habs-alex-newhook-praised-in-house-of-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683122\/","title":{"rendered":"Habs\u2019 Alex Newhook Praised in House of Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/alex-newhook-montreal-canadiens-nhl-playoffs.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Habs' Alex Newhook Praised in House of Assembly\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Canadiens Montreal\/X)<\/p>\n<p>There was much praise in the House of Assembly yesterday for Alex Newhook.<\/p>\n<p>The St. John\u2019s native scored the winning goal in OT of game 7 against the Buffalo Sabres Monday night, pushing the Montreal Canadiens to  the Eastern Conference final with Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>Liberal Leader John Hogan raised the matter at the beginning of Question Period yesterday with Premier Tony Wakeham, a Habs fan. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/happy-caps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299450\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-299450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal Leader John Hogan and Habs fan and Premier Tony Wakeham smile as they agree on Alex Newhook\u2019s skill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a very important day for Newfoundland and Labrador; we get to watch the Montreal Canadiens for another couple of weeks thanks to Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s very own Alex Newhook, we\u2019re all so proud\u2026Ole, Ole, Ole\u2026while we don\u2019t agree a lot, I ask the premier finally, is this something you will agree with me on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t agree more!\u201d replied the Premier enthusiastically. \u201cNot once, but twice he scored the winning goal in game 7!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Canadiens Montreal\/X) There was much praise in the House of Assembly yesterday for Alex Newhook. The St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-683122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}