Khabibulin To Start Ninth Time In Sixteen Games. Decision Time Is Now.

With Nikolai Khabibulin making his ninth start this year, it's well known that his place in the seemingly never ending "battle" between the pipes with Cristobal Huet is slightly higher than his French counterpart. He is leading Huet in every key category of goaltending from GAA to save percentage and he even is two minutes up on Huet in PIM. I know Huet has played two less games so far this season, but is that really a bad thing? We are 16 games into the season the Blackhawks are 7-4-5 thus far. They are going into this game with the third highest Goals for Avg. in the NHL. If I'm Joel Quennevile, at this point, I could not help but look at both of my goaltenders and think that Khabibulin is my guy.   That being said, the club just went out and did what majority of fans were asking for and tried to replace Khabibulin with Huet in the off season by signing him a multi-year deal. Knowing all of these things, what is the right ... (link)