Huet To Play In Switzerland Next Year?

is to keep this phrase around as long as possible

the articles i’m usually fine with.

and the comments can be wildly entertaining. But like all train wrecks, can be difficult to look away from.

it’s just funny that suddenly people are up in arms about it. This was done to Nylander too, but no one complained. I’m thinking some people just feel slighted because they’ve been waiting to see the Blackhawks implode but surprise surprise, somehow Bowman’s managing anyway.

Dale…all right, but ( and I could be wrong here too )…I thought the IIHF and the NHL had an agreement on this, and the only league where there is no agreement is the same one that has no agreement through it’s Hockey Federation…the KHL and Russia.

I don’t get the Twitterati though…idiots.

Of course he can be loaned. Its the same as the AHL. Any other team gets a shot at picking him up before.

Its in the CBA, FFS!

but isn’t the point of a cap to put hurdles in front of teams that are running away from the pack in order to create parity?

Here you go

Its a case of various Feds agreeing and ratifying. The Euro leagues did, but not Russia.

But you watch, once the Hawks do it, Bettman & Co. will decide it absolutely must be investigated.

The dude doesn’t play great D. Don’t get me wrong, he’s awesome on the breakout, but he doesn’t really hit anymore. His last good hit was on RJ Umberger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDKXzfbrYE

While I never tire of that video, it was a long time ago.

not because he’s a fuckup

you mean “because they really wanted him and he came here instead”.

Agree completely that we were completely different without him. But I contend that it was because we substituted his minutes to Sopel… who had become the human sloth. The speed delta between those two might be the greatest in the entire league. Soupy is a terrific player, but at $7.1MM he costs us either another talented forward, a better third D pairing and/ or a namesake goalie. Which still kills me.

That isn’t totally fair to be honest. When Campbell went down Seabrook got hurt and KJ died. If KJ hadn’t died I’m thinking people here would have a totally different point of view on Campbell.

Also, three things happened when Campbell came back in the playoffs.

1. Sharp was moved to Center
2 The Hawks brought the forwards back to help in clearing their zone
3 Campbell played about 10 minutes.

It seems Campbell got all the credit for the turnaround when in fact, I thought he had the least impact of the three changes.

To be honest, Sharp at center let the Hawks concentrate on Legwand. I still think this was the most important key to the playoffs.

to take your daughter to prom….you get the night off, but still end up losing money.

I’ll take exhibition hockey.

I didn’t know there was waivers during the playoffs.

I can’t imagine that it does.

but, in the highly unrealistic scenario we try to call him up for the playoffs this year (bc of no cap hit), or close to the end of the year (where the cap hit would be minimal b/c of proration) and some team claims him, we would be stuck with a 2.6 mil cap hit for next year, right?

he played well enough to lose his jobs to a rookie.

Not kicking the guy…and he did help you guys…

But it is hard to feel bad for someone that will make 5.65 mil no matter where he plays…and another year of the same next year.

One, I don’t think posting on a message board is really kicking somebody when they are down. It’s not like I’m sending certified mail saying he’s a piece of garbage. I’m merely posting my opinion, which is that a guy’s good personality doesn’t detract from the fact that he was a horrible signing for this team, mostly likely among the worst of all time.

Two, I certainly don’t wish him any ill will. I just dont’ want him on the Hawk’s any more.

I don’t understand how everybody loves this guy. He cost the Hawk’s 22 million over 4 years. Not only does that affect the cap, but it also affects how much it costs to go to a game. My question to Huet fans is what would it take for you not to like a player on the Hawks? Who do you not like that was on the team last season? Or is it just a blanket I like every Hawk policy? Clearly, an embarrassingly large salary and being benched for back to back years doesn’t do it, so what will? First degree murder? Exposing themselves on the #36 bus? Being governor of Illinois?

Neimi being bad in the playoffs makes Huet good. Wouldn’t that actually make Huet worse because he lost his starting spot to a goaltender that went on to have the worst run of a Stantely Cup winning goaltender in 30 years? I didn’t say anything about Niemi being good, I thought they were both mediocre. However, mediocre at 800k is much more digestible than 7x that amount.

Wins don’t mean as much in the NHL anymore. There were only some 6 teams that were under .500 last year. I’m not completey sure, but I think the current system is that you get one win for showing up for the game, three or four wins if you finish it, and 13 to 15 wins if you win, depending on the shootout score and punt, pass, and kick competition.

If he wasn’t as bad as I think, how did he lose his job two consecutive seasons? Has that every happened to a starting goalie in the NHL before? Maybe to Osgood? And everybody resoundly agrees that guy stinks and he’s shouldered his team to like three championships!

We’re having the great goalie debate again. (And to top it off, one of the two subjects won’t even play for the Hawks this year!) We are a sad and desperate lot.

but I personally don’t find them all that useful. I’d say hockey fans as a whole aren’t as interested in the stat aspect of the game and certainly don’t follow them as closely as baseball and football. I think the fluidity of the game makes it hard to attach meaningful stats, whereas baseball and football the constant starts and stops makes it easier to classify, quanitfy, and attach a meaning to the number. And although I appreciate people tracking where all the goals were scored on the ice during a particular playoff series, I can probably guess wihout even watching it that most of them will be closer to the net rather than further away.

but my understanding is that he would acknowledge that hockey is less susceptible to being digested and explained by statistics then other sports- certainly baseball- for many of the reasons Billy cites.

There were extensive discussions on the topic during the season.

I get Billy’s point- Huey got beat out by an $800K zamboni driver. Any argument that denigrates Nemo just makes Huey look worse. No stats needed.

If all those assholes disapeared, I’d be happy.