Report: Switzerland may neutralize Blackhawks' Huet headache

Cristobal Huet's $5.625 million cap hit was going to disappear for the Chicago Blackhawks before next season; it was just a matter of where the deposed starting goaltender would end up. Spector passes along a report from a Swiss news site called 20 Minutes Online that states Huet will be loaned from the Blackhawks to Fribourg-Gotteron, which plays in the Swiss Nationalliga A. The Swiss site says it'll be a 1-year arrangement; Huet has two years left on his Blackhawks deal. Chris Kuc of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Huet loan isn't done yet, according to Huet's agent. Operative word, we imagine, being "yet." From Chicago Breaking Sports News: The veteran goaltender is in discussions with Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss League, but "nothing is 100 percent yet," according to Huet's agent Stephen Bartlett. "We've had discussions with (Gotteron), but nothing is finalized and there are a lot of hoops to go through and approvals that ...