| 23 August 2010
From 20 Minuten Online (roughly translated):
HC Fribourg-Gottéron Chicago goalkeeper Cristobal Huet has committed (34), for a year as a replacement for Sebastien Caron.
It would appear that Chicago is planning on lending the goaltender to a Swiss team.
After 289 games (including 17 in the playoffs) Huet's NHL career for the time being has ended. Chicago keeps him under contract, but has lended him for one year at Fribourg-Gottéron. The two players agent Steve Bartlett and Gérald Métroz have threaded this deal today. How much pay Gottéron Chicago needs is (still) not known. The loan amount should be around 300000-600000 francs.
That loan amount translated to dollars is between $288,570.25 and $577,159.69 (USD).
This is very preliminary...so stay tuned.
---UPDATED 12:30 PM---
From Chicago Break Sports:
The Hawks have been trying to find a taker for Huet to clear his $5.625 million salary-cap hit off the books and a one-year agreement to loan him to Gotteron would do the trick. The Hawks would still have to pay Huet's salary, but it wouldn't count against the NHL's cap.
Imagine all the extra beer that Wirtz is going to have to sell to receover that $5.625 million...
The more logical way to turn a profit would be to play Huet, which would drive Windy City residents to drink the $8.50 beer in the United Center. That's only 661,765 beers to sell. With the UC being able to hold 20,500 drunken idiots (assuming they'd all be over 21), they'd recover the cost of Huet in just over 32 games...
Think about it.
