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What's the Niemi, and why are the Hawks against it?

 
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:13 pm    Post subject: What's the Niemi, and why are the Hawks against it? Reply with quote

http://mirtle.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicago-top-goaltending-prospect.html

I used this goalie once in NHL 2008. He wasn't anything special.

Bye bye Lalime, and Nik's got one foot out the door.
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Chicago will lose backup Patrick Lalime as an unrestricted free agent, so there's a hole behind Nikolai Khabibulin for the 24-year-old Finn to potentially fill.


I would have thought that after 3 seasons in the A that Crawford would be the full-time back up for 08-09.
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Niemi is the goaltender version of Brunnstrom right now. This is about the starting job, not the backup job.

And maybe Niemi isn't quite ready. At age 24, he can spend a year in the AHL, and Crawford could be the backup for next year.

This is very similar to the whole Backstrom/Harding scenario when Fernandez was still with the Wild.
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the comments there on Mirtle's blog. Apparently there's a goalkeeper for Fulham in the EPL of the same name. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hawks should make a play for Antero Niiiitiiiimakiiii this offseason, that way they have the interesting and confusingly named goalie tandem in the league.
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