#41 Jaroslav Halak Compilation (Good Luck in St.Louis)

Traded to St.Louis June 17th 2010 for Eller and Schultz

Playing career

Halák was the 271st overall pick by the Canadiens in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
Halák was called up to the main roster on February 15, 2007, after an injury to goaltender Cristobal Huet.
Halák played his first NHL game on February 18, 2007. He stopped 31 shots in a 32 win over the Blue Jackets in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to his call-up, Halák had the lowest GAA in the American Hockey League (2.00) for the Hamilton Bulldogs. He is the fourth Slovak born net minder to play in the NHL, joining Ján Lašák, Rastislav Staňa and Peter Budaj.
On March 20, 2007, Halák made thirty saves to give the Montreal Canadiens a 10 victory over the Boston Bruins for his first NHL shutout. He recorded a second shutout, also against the Bruins on April 2, 2007. Halák's great play in the end of the 2006-2007 NHL season helped Montreal fight for a playoff spot during an injury to Cristobal Huet. Halák played for Team Slovajia in the 2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.[1]
Halák had been assigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs for the majority of the 200708 season. However, since the trade of Cristobal Huet, Halák took over full-time as the Canadiens backup. He started his first playoff game on April 30, 2008 against the Philadelphia Flyers (a 4-2 loss) after sub-par performances from starter Carey Price, who once again took over the following game.
[edit]Career statistics

[edit]Regular season

SeasonTeamLeagueGPWLTOTMINGASOGAASV%
200203BratislavaSvk Jr.9————47718—2.26—
200304HC Slovan BratislavaSVK12————6511801.66.942
200405Lewiston MaineiacsQMJHL4724174—269712542.78.913
200506Long Beach Ice DogsECHL201142—10263522.05.932
200506Hamilton BulldogsAHL1376—07863032.29.927
200607Hamilton BulldogsAHL281611—016185462.00.932
200607Montreal CanadiensNHL16106—09124422.89.906
200708Hamilton BulldogsAHL8322—4542202.91.901
200708Montreal CanadiensNHL621—12841012.11.934
200809Montreal CanadiensNHL341814—119319212.86.915
NHL totals563021—2312814642.80.914

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[danhabsfan9]

yeah price was great during the regular season... too bad your stats in the regular season don't help you win play off games.

[corunguneee]

@danhabsfan9 He had better stats in the playoffs than Halak...not his fault his team couldn't score even strength for shit. Luckily for Halak the opponents all had crap goalies allowing the Habs to score more than 15 goals in their 7 game series. I bet you were very happy deep down when the Habs lost lol.

[danhabsfan9]

@corunguneee yeah and luckily for halak he was facing the two top teams in the league and facing the biggest hockey super stars in the world. wasn't that very lucky for him? and no i'm never happy about a lose to boston. that's just embarrassing. though i did expect it considering we didn't have markov, georges or pacieretty. speaking of that, if there was any justice in the league chara would have been suspended for the play offs and montreal would have won the series.

[corunguneee]

@danhabsfan9 Yeah and he gave up more goals than Price did this series, even got pulled multiple times. Bruins were the 5th highest scoring team in the regular season btw, they're not the devils. Habs had one even strength goal vs Bruins in the last 12 periods of the series. You can't win like that. The difference is in this series, the opposition goalie didn't have a sub 0.900 sv%. But whatever, I gotta accept people will always hate Price.

[DIVAD291]

when price won the game pretty much by himself agaisnt the russians was an amazing moment...oh wait that was halak...anyways when price was almost perfect in the playoffs and gave us the opportunity to win agaisnt the capitals and the penguins it was an awesome mom...oh wait that was halak...

[Jiltedin2007]

@adamJcarter Obviously so, Carey Price is going to excel much farther than Jaroslav Halak at this point considering the teams that both Price and Halak are playing for. But, it won't be long until Halak will be latching on to another team more superior than your Habs, and then we can have this discussion. A FLASH IN THE PAN? REALLY?!!!

How about if we can put Price in front of the St. Louis net and see how he will fare.

[41HalakFleury29]

Halak is the best :D

[Gwynbleidd86]

@adamJcarter it would be because of Hitchcock ;)

[adamJcarter]

@VeinerSnitzle If the Blues win the cup, it'll be because of Elliot not Halak. 

[VeinerSnitzle]

@adamJcarter Last year the Blues team was completely injured the 2nd half of last year & didn't make playoffs. Literally like half the team (no joke)& top scorers were out including Halak. I don't expect you to know all this but I do have to stick up for Halak. Blues also started out bad this season & had serious scoring probs. Halak was keeping them in games when they couldn't score. Halak wont win a cup? We'll see this year buddy. Blues are cup bound

[CodiakWisergreen]

@corunguneee devils for the cup!

[EaTYoUrBrAiN]

OH YEAH HALAK HOW IT FEELS

[monrealrulz]

u are not wrong attt al but carey price rocks