Cristobal Huet

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Position Goaltender
Catches Left
Nickname Cristo-Wall or Cristo, Le Cousin
Height
Weight		 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
204 lb (93 kg)
NHL Team
F. Teams		 Montreal Canadiens
Los Angeles Kings
Nationality Flag of France France
Born September 3, 1975,
Saint-Martin-d'Hères, FRA
NHL Draft 214th overall, 2001
Los Angeles Kings
Pro Career 2002 – present

Cristobal Huet (IPA pronunciation: [y.ɛ]) (born September 3, 1975 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France) is a French professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for the NHL's Montreal Canadiens. Huet was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings as their seventh-round pick, 214th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.


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[edit] Playing career

Huet played for the Kings in 2002-2003, and 2003-2004. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in a three-team deal that sent Mathieu Garon to L.A. and Radek Bonk from Ottawa to Montreal. During the lockout, Huet played for Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He took the team to the finals, but lost four straight games to Eisbären Berlin.

In the 2005-06 Season, Huet made himself a force to be reckoned with by racking up ten shutouts in 74 games.

During the presentation of the players at the first home game for Montreal in October 2005, the presenter forgot to name Huet as part of the roster. However, this may be related to the fact that Huet was re-habbing his reconstructed knee in Switzerland until part way through the season, and would have been unable to skate onto the ice with the rest of the club.

He also won the Molson Cup in February of 2006. The Molson Cup is awarded monthly to the best Montreal Canadiens' player. He won the Best Defensive Player award from the NHL during the first week of March, ousting goaltenders such as the Ottawa Senators' Ray Emery and the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur, with a 3-0-0 record and a 1.67 GAA. And for the second time of the year, he was named NHL Best Defensive Player on April 3rd, with a 3-0-0 record, a 0.65 GAA and 0.979 SV%, ousting goaltenders Martin Brodeur, Miikka Kiprusoff and Manny Legace. On April 23, in his first ever Stanley Cup playoffs start, Huet starred in a 6-1 win against the 2nd seed in Eastern Conference -- the Carolina Hurricanes. Huet stopped 42 of 43 shots in the contest to put the Canadiens up 1-0 in the seven game series. Two days later, Huet recorded his 1st lifetime overtime playoff win, when the Canadiens beat the Hurricanes 6-5 in 2nd overtime to take the lead 2-0 in the series. But in the next 4 games, Huet and the Canadiens lost games 2-1, 3-2, 2-1 and 2-1 and the series in goaltender duels with rookie Cam Ward, who took Martin Gerber's No 1 spot in the series, and who would later go on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy. Huet's stats in the 2006 playoffs were: 2-4, 2.33 GAA, 0.929 SV%.

The Canadiens re-signed him on June 26 for two years at $5.75M total.

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Regular season

   
Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA SV%
2002-03 Los Angeles Kings NHL 12 4 4 1 541 21 1 2.33 .913
2003-04 Los Angeles Kings NHL 41 10 16 10 2199 89 3 2.43 .907
2005-06 Montreal Canadiens NHL 36 18 11 0 2102 77 7 2.20 .929
2006-07 Montreal Canadiens NHL 15 9 2 0 837 27 2 1.93 .940
NHL CAREER TOTALS 104 41 33 11 5681 214 13 2.26 .922

Stats As of November 29th, 2006

[edit] Playoff career

   
Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SA GAA SV%
2005-06 Montreal Canadiens NHL 6 2 4 0 386 15 212 2.33 .929

[edit] International play

Played for France in:

[edit] International statistics

Year Team Comp GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA
1998 France Oly 2 1 1 0 120 5 0 2.50
2002 France Oly 3 0 2 1 179 10 0 3.36

[edit] Honors

Albert Hassler Trophy (Most Valuable Domestic Player in the French Elite League), 1997/98

Jean Ferrand Trophy (Most Valuable Goaltender in the French Elite League), 1996/97 and 1997/98

Jacques Plante Trophy (Best GAA in the Swiss National A League), 1999/00 and 2000/01

Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award (Best Save% in the National Hockey League), 2005/06

French Elite League Champion with HC Grenoble-Isère Bruleurs de Loups, 1997/98

Swiss National A League Champion with HC Lugano, 1998/99

European Hockey League Final Four with HC Lugano, 1999/00

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Preceded by:
Dwayne Roloson		 Winner of the Crozier Award
2006		 Succeeded by:
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