Let the Huet Hate Start Again: Hawks 3- Stars 4

Huet is about as consistent as John Goodman’s bowel movements.

The glass in that corner has a helluva shot.

The two goals tonight were horrendous. And the performance against Calgary — well, you saw it.

Still: there are flashes of competency in every game he plays. Is his best moments better than Niemi’s, or Crawford’s?

What is required is a bit of consistency and full concentration, for sixty minutes. (After that 2nd period, that’s a message for everybody.)

I think that you put him right back in there on Wednesday. He doesn’t need to be told to perform better, but he should be told anyway. If we get more clown-ass goals, then we can talk about What Next.

His two suck ass goals were the difference. The team in front of him played well enough to win against a team that got its balls kicked in the night before. If he would have stopped the dump in, we at least get a point. Huet, Q and the team are in a bad spot now. This town shows no mercy when they are “done” with someone. Fair or not, Huet is now in a hole that no one or two games with stand on his head performances will be enough to quiet people. Booing him and yelling shit from the stands isn’t going to change anything or make the team feel any better for that matter, but it’s what people are going to do until they get bored with it or Huet wins five decently played games.

I chose to watch killer clowns from outer space instead of this game. I’m trying really hard not to be another cog in the huet hate machine. Judging by everyones comments his performance tonight would have made steam come out of my ears. I refuse to believe he will continue to under perform. Let’s just not boo him for like 2 games. He’s not rex grossman dammit.

Two nieces, one that is now my goddaughter, have taken up a bit of my time, but I actually got to go and see the game. Very disappointing, especially after the first period. One guy next to me kept yelling shoot, and the other knew just enough to get everything fucking wrong when he talked, screaming for guys to make passes when they didn’t have the puck, and getting hopeful about breakaways while 2 defenders where still between Toews, the blue line, and the goalie. I’ve been trying to defend Huet to my family and anyone else I hear talk shit about him, but it’s getting harder and harder. It was incredibly disheartening to hear boo’s for Huet while being introduced in the lineup, and the sarcastic cheers when he made “saves” afterwards. The calls to trade him are useless, he has as much value as cedric benson did a few years back. If I could remember who posted it, i would quote them, but I can’t so I’ll just repeat it, goalies don’t get traded, they get signed. I had a more precise and thought out plan of what I wanted to say, but the beer at the game, and the vodka, vodka, and vodka following it have made it hard to remember exactly what I wanted to say, and have also added to the time it took to type this up, thankfully there is a nice red squiggly line under words I mess up, so I can at least seem soberish while I type. Final thought before I forget it, it seemed like two different teams played against the stars tonight, at different times the hawks played with the same intensity as the first period, and at other times it was as if they decided they were already going to lose and shouldn’t bother trying to win, any more insight on that or how weak the goals were? I love watching live but sometimes it’s easier to see stuff while watching from home.

At least tell me that Mastodon kicked all form of ass.

Take solace in the fact that Auld stole the game for the Stars. The Hawks, except Huet, were much better than the Stars

I don’t think it’s ever going to stop either this year or ever. Let’s face it the media and fans have basically drubbed this guy as the guy who will ruin the season if the Hawks don’t win the Stanley Cup and in essence has become another Patrick Lalime. For those who don’t know the Ottawa Senators waltzed into the 2003-04 season as the overwhelming favourites to win Lord Stanley’s mug after reaching the Conference Finals the year previous and capturing the President’s Trophy. They were loaded top to bottom with the likes of Hossa, Havlat, Alfredsson, and Spezza up front with Chara, Redden, and Phillips on the back end it looked like nothing could derail this powerhouse except one thing…Patrick Lalime their inept netminder. Game after game Lalime struggled all season while his back-up Martin Prusek was stellar throughout the season yet come playoff time it was Lalime who started (eventhough fans begged Mucker to trade for a new #1) and after 15 minutes of the first period the Sens were down 3-0 in Game 7 to the Leafs after Lalime let in 3 hideous goals and then, and only then, did Prusek get a chance but then it was too late. Does this sound familiar?

What is the point of trotting out Huet time and time again when it is clear he is not capable of performing at the level the Hawks expect and need from him? And why should it be fair that Niemi consistantly be religated to the back-up role all the while the starter continues to flounder? This thought process makes no sense. Huet is struggling to the point of no return with now reports that goaltending coach Stephane Waite is restructing his mechanics and based on his recent performances it hasn’t helped one bit, in fact you can make the case it has made him worse. Huet mentally is in a mess right now and trotting him out there isn’t going to help and if he is the guy moving forward then it would be the best to put in Niemi right now and let Huet work on his game with Waite until he feels 100% confortable and confident.
Huet has proven to be a good goaltender throughout the past just ask any ‘Les Canadiens’ fan, many of whom were shocked on far Huet has fallen since his days in Montreal, and will get back to that level again but not by being thrown to the wolves and playing game after game. He needs a mental rest and practice time to restructure his game and most importantly his confidence and if he can’t do it in time then the Hawks should deal for another top netminder (preferably Giguere) but let’s give it some time shall we? I don’t think anyone needs to tell him how horrible he had been I think he already knows that.

…after watching Brouwer score I have to do a little bragging considering I predicted he would. Anybody can predict that Toews, Sharp, or Kane will score in a certain game but Brouwer…and it happen? Now that’s pretty fuckin good I have to say.
Make note though that I’m more often wrong than I’m right (picked the Wild to win the Northwest..can you say UGH!) but in this case I just couldn’t resist the temptation to brag a little.

Darren Pang isn’t much of a Huet believer apparently…

http://www.670thescore.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4090875

it’s an audio interview btw

have the newbie fanatics really scared anyone with a half a brain away from this lovely place?

The Hawks are in a tough spot. With Huet’s contract being what it is, he is going to be tough to trade and the way he is playing doesn’t help. The Atlanta deal is questionnable as he has that groin history.

Now, a name that probably no one is considering is Tomas Vokoun from Florida. I am a lifelong Hawk fan living here in Fort Lauderdale since 93. The locals are getting fed up with Vokoun’s play which at times has been subpar, but the defense in front of him stinks most nights. As we saw the Panthers give up a ton of shots. The contracts are almost the same, and if both players need a change of scenery it could be a good swap. I do think Vokoun is better than he has shown, and wants to play for a winner.
Who knows, this could be something for both sides to consider.

Thoughts?

Wolves trade Legace to Hawks for,Frank Pellico,the organ,half the beer concessions from the 300 level,half the hard booze concessions from the 100 and 200 level, half the Hawks parking revenue and wait……….. Huet!

It’s hard to have faith in Huet when he’s so wildly erratic from period to period, and it’s not like this is a new problem for Huet, either. He was good when Khabby got hurt last winter, shaky down the stretch, had an awful display in game 4 of the Detroit series, and then played his brains out in game 5. Erratic.

Not acceptable for a Stanley Cup contender.

He has delivered a full game only once so far, against Nashville. And yes, the season is young, but so is my nephew, and he huffs glue.

Faith is just stubbornness for people who don’t want to face the facts.

I’m sure most would agree that Luongo, Thomas, and Brodeur are among 3 of the top 5 or so G’s depending on how you rate Nabakov or Lundquist. FWIW Brodeur was matching Huet in sucktitude until he posted a 2-0 SO the other night.

Huet – 3.25 GAA, .844 SV%
Luongo – 3.41 GAA, .870 SV%
Brodeur – 2.68 GAA, .903 SV%
Thomas – 3.20 GAA, .896 SV%
Kiprusoff – 3.26 GAA, .902 SV%
Khabby – 3.11 GAA, .898 SV%
Vokoun – 3.80 GAA, .903 SV%
Osgood – 3.20 GAA, .886 SV%
C.Price – 3.36 GAA, 886 SV%
Toskala – 5.56 GAA, .812 SV%

fwiw Huet is only averaging 18.1 shots per game faced in his 6 starts

I wish my recall was better, but I do remember hearing/reading that there’s this idea of changing Huet’s style of play from his Euro hybrid to a NorAm butterfly. I don’t think this can be true. It would be akin to hiring a stand-up comic due to his hilarious jokes and timing and then train him to wrestle bears in the circus.

But if it is true, then the play we’ve seen from him is because you teaching an old dog new tricks. He’s 34 and has had success with the style he plays. Hell, it’s probably the reason he has the job he has now. You don’t sign free agents to train them; that is what the draft is for. If the ’Hawks are so put off by his style of play as to try and teach him a new style, then they had better trade him for whatever they can get for him and put Craw/Niemi in net right now.

As a former goalie, I can tell you that no coach ever told me how to handle a ridiculous bounce off of the glass partitions. Of course, I did not ever play in the NHL. Maybe all the rest of you NHL goalies and coaches can tell me that is a regular part of practice.

Did you not post this an hour ago?

It’s as simple as that. There is no point talking about him anymore, he is not our guy.

And add to it I do watch every Hawks game before commenting here and it was last night that I was at my cousin’s party in Montreal and yes I missed about half of the game but guess what?…when I got home a watched the game in it’s entirety thanks to an invention called PVR!!!
I like many people would talk about Toews more, but I do find myself trying to be one of the few rational people here when it comes to Huet. Is he as good as Brodeur?No. Is he as good as Luongo?No. But many people come on here and suggest he’s worse than Emery, Theodore, Toskala, and Auld which is ridiculous. I will bet any money that Huet ends up with better numbers than all those 4 netminders.
He isn’t the best, but far from the worst either. He just needs a mental break like Osgood last year, Brodeur in the 1994 playoffs vs. Boston and in the 1995 regular season, Roy in 1988 when he was struggling and Hayward took over for a while under Pat Burns and I can go on. Even the best ever have had stretches when they have strugged, Huet is no different.

I am going to be Key-rok, unfrozen caveman lawyer for Halloween this year. Does anybody have a suggestion for the neanderthal forehead that doesn’t involve skulling Chris Pronger?

Huet is going through a rough patch, that’s all it is. He may not be a future hall of famer, but he’s also not this bad either. A lot of people, myself included, thought that Huet wasn’t good enough to be a Stanley Cup winning goaltender this year as THE GUY, but that sentiment seems to be driving some overreaction to his poor play. My criticism of him was meant with more subtlety, meaning that in a tough playoff series that’s relatively evenly matched where every little difference matters and you need your goalie to face down the game’s best players is Huet a guy who can carry a team through a series? I’m not convinced that he can, but it’s a near miss. He was solid last year during the season and excellent when needed in the playoffs, but the truth is that Habby was a little better and deserved the playoff job.

But this is different with Huet this season. Right now he’s had a few really, horribly bad games, like comically bad, as in literal laugh out loud moments. This isn’t one of those more-of-the-same situations where a mediocre player keeps breaking your heart, this is a trainwreck on ice. That means it’s an outlier, just a horrible, horrible streak that people go through from time to time, completely magnified by the questions surrounding Huet and people extrapolating that to being something bigger. He’s going to improve and get out of this funk and be fine because he’s a much better player than his output so far, and given the sheer number of games played the law of averages isn’t going to let him play that much worse than his talent. Regardless of whether or not you believe Huet can ultimately become THE GUY, this isn’t the body of work to use to make a final decision on that.

I just wish the fans in the Madhouse were more understanding of that. I don’t have a problem with a demanding fan base expecting the players to earn the fans’ support nor do I have a problem with booing bad behavior and expecting a professional to turn in a professional’s day’s work. But the relationship between the fans and Huet is approaching adversarial and that’s just not healthy for any of us in the long term.

As for whether or not we can trade for a better goalie we’re almost certain to trade some players here no matter what. We’ve got three unhealthy forwards that are eventually coming back and after you send Skille to Rockford and maybe take Frazier out (as they did for most of the playoffs) you still have to figure out 1 more cut from the list of Bolland, Buff, Kane, Toews, Sharp, Ladd, Madden, VERSTEEG!, Brower, Kopecky, Eager, Burish and Hossa. You can start going through the scenarios in your head to try and figure it out, but eventually you come to the realization that we have a lot of depth up front and not much at the blue line and could probably use some help between the pipes. We could really use a big body to pair with Soupy and I don’t think anyone would lose any sleep if Unfrozen Caveman Hockey Player was the odd man out as he and Barker have looked very poor defensively at times. If we can get a #1 goalie great, but if not it is what it is. But let’s not go overpay for somebody else’s Huet-equivalent out of desperation. Let’s get Huet on the ice to turn it around, let’s get Hossa and Eager healthy and let’s make a trade to get more physical on the blue line, and if in that process a deal becomes available for a #1 goalie then great but if not then let’s stay rational and improve the team wisely.

This is the best Hawks team in my lifetime, and the bitching here is incredible. Paying full price to actually go to games and then boo and put classless posters up to trade Huet accomplish nothing. Why not just save up the rage from the game and smash a windshield in the parking lot on the way home? That would accomplish just as much waving a trade Huet sign.

of the posters on this site.

Then we’d be in good shape.

Huet couldn’t stop that fat guy from the game Ice Hockey from scoring. I don’t care what you all Huet backers say, He sucks and the org. knows it but they are going to start him because of his contract. As much as they preach they want to win it for the fans all all this hype for the past two years, when it comes down to it money comes first and they will make sure he plays the games if he is going to get paid all that money, its commen sense. If Huet got paid way less then what his contract is, his ass would have been benched a long time ago. Now if their is a blind team out there that thinks they can use Huet and so be it, but I highly doubt it. We are stuck with.

this was a reply to thor, i though the medium bult guy had the best shot in ice hockey. What ever it was just a refrence to poor play.

swimming upstream against the latest iteration of Chicago Sports Fan Stupidity.

The hawks should not have to score 5-6 goals game in and game out to be assured of a win. Not that they can’t do it, but still.

I am still for platooning the goalies till one of them shows they are a number one or at the very least ride the hot hand.

Huet maybe more seasoned, but Niemi goaltending seems to be more fundamentally sound.

hell Tony O looked like he was ready when called upon to skate in center ice. What is he askin for these days.

when Huet comes out in a commerical he should say " My goal is to stop smoking grass before the game." then you see a puck fly past him. lolololol

south west should make one with Huet’s goal off the boards that went in then the commercial stops and says wanna get a away. lolololol

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this will my last blog, since I will most likely be band from this after my post. I have never known hawks fans in here had a pms problem. And im going to call them out Matthew Dirt who looks like a sad case of a welfare problem and by looking at his pic, I my not be so far off. and TimG58. Whom from the four I don’t know which is the flake. looking at the pic, it must be the one that is on the right of Seebrook, whom is touching Seebrook’s ass. Anyway, If anyone else in here feels the same way as I. Feel free to check out a real sight run by my nephew called indianheadnation, that I assure you is a site with real ties to the team and thousands of members. And has many options as to topics to choose from. Please feel free to check it out you will not be disappointed. Fairwell to a flaky site.

Another day of Huet talk? What’s going on here? What is this accomplishing by posting the same thing over and over again? And now there are some resorting to derogatory comments about those who they know nothing about? All on the basis of what their profile picture looks like…pretty sad if you ask me.
Yesterday it was Auld, today it’s Fernandez. Are these 2 that much better than Huet? Add another goaltender (Fernandez) to the pack that I would be shocked if Huet at the end of the season had worse numbers than.