RIP - Patrick Sharp Point Streak: Huet and Blackhawks beat Predators 3-1

“What is that, Cris?”
“I think that’s our fans … giving us props!”
“What are props? Can you smoke them?”
“…”

belongs on To Catch a Pedator.
Nothing like a disturbing stache.

I’ll feel a little better seeing him do it against a good offensive team. Next Wednesday vs. Vancouver might be the next good test.

Coach Q was quoted as saying this in the AP recap tonight:

"He got a good win," Quenneville said. "He handled the puck well. I think it helped him and it helped us. There is no problem with Huet. I do not anticipate changing goaltenders."

However, he also pointed out during a pregame interview all the back-to-back games the Hawks have this year, and said both goalies will see plenty of starts. If Niemi can continue to show the poise he showed Wednesday, we may see a bit of a 1A/1B situation until the Olympic break.

How the hell did Colin Fraser end up with a -5 on the CORSI numbers. I only got to catch the highlights, but was he a non-factoror just on the ice for short-handed opportunities?

…since the opening bed-crapping against Calgary, the Hawks have strung together an impressive 170 minutes.

2 shots against in the 3rd period. Wha! It’s like the Hawks tucked Nashville in all snug with a warm glass of milk and assured ’em everything would be ok. I hesitate to point out the team that used to do this to the Hawks.

If Keith thinks his shit don’t stink, it’s because his head is so far away from his ass. The goal was textbook (great plays by Seebs and Toews too.) Following up on the theme, Madden then read a similar play to Keith, who set up Kane for another “glorius opportunity”.

Three two-way centers and (now) maybe four d-men who could reach 10-15 goals. Muahh!

Crazy as it sounds, the Hawks may feel a bit snakebit through seven games. How many pucks have gone in off our guys? How many big saves (except for shoot-out) have our goalies made? Granted, we’ve enjoyed a couple musical pipe clangers, but…

At the other end, we really haven’t benefitted from fluky goals and, to take just one example, Brouwer alone has been stoned on three or four “glorious opportunities” this year, probably equalling what our guys have done in net.

Oh yeah, no Hossa yet.

Pinch me.

Hey like it has been said, if the D doesn’t allow shots or scoring opprutunities, no goals will be scored. Simple enough.

Oh and my man crush for Seabrook is continuing to grow.

On top of Hammer looking like a stud lately, I think Soupy is in line for some very early season pats on the back.

Nick Hjalmarsson should get a restraning order to stay 10 away from the net. Gooo Hawks.

As a regular negative commenter on Huet, I think Foley gave me some answers I was looking for.

Huet is playing with less confidence and sharpness this year than he did last year. Rather than being an A- goalie, he seemed to have fallen to a C- or worse at the beginning of this season. And it is clear now why that may be the case.

 How can you take a 34 year old goalie and tell him he has to radically change his style without forcing him to think more than react? During Huet’s tenure in Montreal, he was coached to go into the butterfly and move laterally in the crease while on the ice. This is the style he seemed to play last year, and while he was beaten high at times, it happens nowhere near as frequently as it has this season.

Hawks goalie coach Waite is trying to teach him to stay up when going from side to side and fall to the butterfly when he needs to make a low save. Imagine if you were Huet now, with the pressure of being the #1 guy, being coached to reinvent his crease mechanics….

I am willing to give Huet some deference now, and hope that he either successfully makes the transition, or if it is deemed that the experiment is a failure, that the coaches just allow him to return to his older style of play, letting him return to a comfort zone where he can react rather than think then react.

That all being said, last night was at best a confidence booster for him, albeit against what may be the most anemic offense in the NHL right now. Tomorrow night will be a truer test of his readiness. and he had better be ready – I invested some bucks for some sweet seats in 327 for that game, and I would sure like to see him play well.

hey Brent come here………is it me or do those flat pads make Niemi’s ass look fat?

at least for a whole 60 min. Not that they aren’t good, they are. It’s just that I see greatness, but only for a few minutes here and there (a lot of few minutes).

Then again, it’s early in the season, can’t imagine how great the games are going to get.

Let’s not get all lovey-dovey and hop aboard the Huet train after a solid performance were he stopped 12 shots…for the whole game, not a period, for the whole game so let’s try to keep all things in perspective shall we?
Never thought I ‘d see the day that a $5.6 million goaltender would have to re-invent his game due to the fact that the goaltender coach (and the organization as well) thought his mechanics weren’t good enough to be successful throughout the NHL season. which is far from a ringing endorsement for Huet. The fact that it looks like Huet has more work to do on his game than Neimi, frankly, is startling to say the least and NO the team does not perform better with Huet in net they just play air-tight defence in front of Huet for they do not feel confident enough that Huet will make the big save when they need him to.
Did he make a big save all night? One could argue the save off of a deflected shot late in the 3rd but he did leave the rebound at the feet of Steve Sullivan, all due to the fact he couldn’t catch the puck (a reoccuring problem with Huet) other than that there really any other opportunities that Huet had thwarted.
All in all a positive performance from Huet for at least for one game this season showed that he can provide the netminding the Hawks hoped he could provide and that’s just to be solid and that he was tonight. This performance doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods yet for another sub-standard performance (either Saturday or Wednesday) will have Huet facing the same predicament as he did tonight…play well or get ready to ride the pine.

That certainly wasn’t the most entertaining performance, but on the road that is precisely what the Hawks were looking for. An air-tight defensive game with little chances going each way and that is what happened as the Hawks shutdown the Predators to an incredible 13 shots..13 shots for the whole game! The Predators must have thought they were in a time warp or something having them traveled back into the year 2000. It’s been a while since I’ve seen an NHL team get completely shutdown to the point were they could only amass 13 shots…in their own barn to boot. That my friends was a defensive gem.
Great stuff and hopefully it continues on Saturday against the Stars.

I have to agree that it wouldn’t be an average request to ask a $5.6 mil. NHL goalie to change his net mechanics so he can make more saves. If I’m Huet I’d be asking “What the fuck did you guys think you were getting when you signed me?”

Creating whatever net mechanics he has began a very long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and he’s proven to a plethora of coaching staff, scouts, teammates, owners, fans, hot chicks, uncle Dick’s cousin’s brother who actually played Junior ‘A’, and yes, experts on this site (maybe the one or two that are left in his camp anyway), that he’s got more than enough skills to be where he’s at and earning whatever he’s pocketing.

Baby steps (very different than “babying”), and if that means starting with 13 shots allowed, and apparently we can limit it to that with an opponent like last night, then great. This won’t be the case very often in this league though. But on that note, if we aren’t willing to tread a little lightly with wherever the bejesus his ego is right now, let’s just stamp a ‘return to sender’ on his forehead and drop him in the mail.

He’s got the skills. He needs to go get drunk for a week or something, hey, I don’t know what works for this guy. But I’m pretty sure he’s one of those players that a team loses faith in, trades away, and then eats large fucking crow every time he comes back to town for the next 4 years (P. Roy – and no, I sure as hell am not putting them in the same category… just making a point).

All people are idiots, except for the ones that I don’t think are idiots.

I hate to get on this topic because Im tired of hereing Huet this Huet that. There is a reason he is still here and not let go. I know its because of his contract, but look at it this way. Do you really think the Panguins Goalie was really that good when they won the cup. As long as the offense and defense does the job which I think they are doing their job and they only will be getting better, then Huet just needs to focus. Also want to add, last year he did not play a full season. So I would not be hateing so fast. And as always, DETRIOT SUXS!!! DETRIOT SUXS!!

Who cares!!! as long as the point is across. Please check my spelling on this one. lolol, and grade me.

I think the Chicago Fire should start scouting Hjallmerson the way he’s kicking pucks in the net lately.

Can I set this up as a recurring post?

I think The divison would be alot better without Nashville and Columbus in it. I just hate seeing teams that don’t belong in the NHL. They should have looked at Wisconsin for a team before freakin Nashville or Columbus or even AZ!

Did anyone notice that with about 5 minutes to go Nashville starting playing Metallica’s One over the PA. Was it to fire them up, or to make a statement about the maximum number of goals they can score in a game?

1) Good game
2) Our team rocks
3) In many respects, Huet had a pretty easy night, but he won and that’s all that matters
4) NHL Center GameCenter Live is much improved over last year, but (and this may sound odd) eliminating the commercials and going dark in between periods is kind of bothersome
5) I kind of liked Dustin’s “I am a golden god!” moment after he took out the trash
6) I bought tickets to both games in Vancouver for when the Hawks come to town

when did Brouwer turn into such a bad motherfucker?

Yes, I thought that was incredibly sexist. However, I’ll have to check into attending. Then come up with some awesome question. Like, how do you get the hockey players to marry you? Or, is the UC kept cold so you can see my nips?

I guess in his contract it stated that he must do a spin-o-rama every game along with everything else. How many spin-o-rama’s does he have to do to equal 7.3 mil. ????