Cristobal Huet

Abel to Yzerman Previous entry: Digging Monday by George Malik on 09/27/10 at 09:18 PM ET Comments (1) New York Rangers defenseman Wade Redden cleared waivers today and finds himself heading to Hartford to play for the Wolf Pack (as of February, the Connecticut Whale) of the AHL, and as the Hockey News’s Ken Campbell has his predictable, “It violates the spirit of the CBA!” hissy fit and the CBC’s Elliotte Friedman and Yahoo Sports’ Greg “Puck Daddy” Wyshynski weigh in on the situation...Read Full Story

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I wasn’t the most popular fella in these parts when, in the middle of summer, I offered the opinion that losing out on Cristobal Huet and settling for Jose Theodore didn’t exactly inspire dreams of circling around Verizon Center ice with Lord Stanley raised high. To be fair: the Caps pursued Huet with vigor, and lost out having made a very good-faith effort to re-up with him. But at the time I recall the Capitals’ fanbase responding to the...Read Full Story

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Well, I suppose it’s worse to be in Cleveland, where their star hoopster apparently is making love-eyes at the Big Apple. We know for sure where Alex Ovechkin will be in 2012. And 2018. Then again, one more goalie to play in front of like Jose Theodore, and the Gr8 may rethink the merits of that new pro hockey league in Russia. Could you blame him? When you’re a hockey town in training and you’re looking down on Cleveland, things ain’t so...Read Full Story

It is terrific news that this morning the Capitals' starting goaltender boasts a .929 save percentage and a 2.12 goals-against, both statistics good enough for 6th-best in their respective categories in the entire league. You would think your team could go pretty far with such play between the pipes. It is a little surprising, however, that these stats belong to a netminder earning slightly more than eight hundred thousand dollars in salary, less than double that of Tyler Sloan, and who is...Read Full Story

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Well, that was fast. Capitals fans won’t have to wait long to see Huet again. Just announced from Caps’ PR: The Washington Capitals will face the Chicago Blackhawks in their home opener at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 at Verizon Center, one day after opening the season at Atlanta, the NHL announced today. The league also announced the Capitals will play two games each against Western Conference opponents Columbus, Los Angeles and Nashville during the...Read Full Story

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - On this the opening day of ‘08-09 NHL free agency Washington Capitals’ fans confronted the opposing twins of personnel movement outcome: morning elation with Mike Green’s signing and afternoon agony in the club’s failure to come to terms with season-salvaging, starting netminder Cristobal Huet. The Capitals this afternoon, having reached an impasse with Huet and his agent, signed Colorado’s Jose Theodore to a two-year deal. An absolute bulwark...Read Full Story

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finn Ville Koistinen scored the shootout winner and Tomas Vokoun made 52 saves, leading the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in the first NHL regular season game played in Finland on Friday.Defenseman Koistinen delighted the crowd with a backhand to the top of the net past Chicago goaltender Cristobal Huet, then watched as Patrick Sharp could not beat Vokoun, giving Florida an opening win to the season."It's a great story for Ville. What a...Read Full Story

(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - As Pucksandbooks pointed out in his recent post, his assessment of the Capitals’ goaltender situation was his own. Now I don’t dispute Pucks’ facts, nor are his conclusions irrational — but from my perspective they seem a bit dire and premature mere hours after the signing. So, as a counterpoint, here’s my take on the situation which, while hardly sunny, is a more optimistic outlook. Let’s start with the bad: There’s no doubt that a...Read Full Story

from Mike Brophy of Sportsnet, Another huge concern is the team’s goaltending. With Nikolai Khabibulin departed for Edmonton, the starter’s job falls to Cristobal Huet. Yikes! Huet has enjoyed a certain level of success in his five-year NHL career with Los Angeles, Montreal, Washington and now the Blackhawks, but he has done absolutely nothing to suggest he can be the No. 1 goaltender on a winning team. Finally, the Hawks got more bad news this week when it was announced agitating winger...Read Full Story

Goaltender Cristobal Huet will spend the upcoming season playing for HC Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss National League A after being assigned to the team Monday by the Chicago Blackhawks. Cristobal Huet (Getty Images) Cristobal Huet (Getty… Originally posted here: Blackhawks assign Huet to Swiss League teamRead Full Story