Quenneville wants Huet to stay sharp

While it appears Antti Niemi has essentially locked up the Blackhawks' No. 1 goalie job, Joel Quenneville hasn't forgotten about Cristobal Huet.

With the Hawks needing Huet to stay as sharp as possible as well, Quenneville said Huet would get some starts in the final 10 games, including Thursday night against Columbus at Nationwide Arena.

"We like the trend (Niemi) has going right now, (but) Huey hasn't played in a long time and he's going to play," Quenneville said Wednesday. "Huey hasn't played since that Philly game (March 13) when he played very well and we want to get him going, too."

Quenneville admitted he wanted to have a No. 1 goalie set in his mind coming down to the final five games of the season.

"I think as we go down to the short number of games - we've got 10 left - when you get inside of five it might be clear where you might go with one guy," Quenneville said.

"We want both guys confident in the net and we want both guys playing well and I think they both deserve an opportunity to keep playing and keep getting the chance to be the guy."

In this corner: Whatever works, right?

That's how Joel Quenneville sees what Brent Seabrook started Tuesday, awarding the WWE championship belt be bought last weekend in Arizona to the team's player of the game.

Antti Niemi was given the title belt following the 2-0 win over the Coyotes and made like John Cena, draping it over his shoulder as he talked to reporters.

"Seabs brought it in before the game in Phoenix (Saturday) and it was pretty funny to see him with it," Patrick Kane said.

Seabrook ran the idea past Quenneville before bringing the belt into the dressing room.

"I was hoping we got to use it in Phoenix," Quenneville said.

Campbell disgusted: Injured defenseman Brian Campbell just so happens to be one of the players on the NHL Players Association's competition committee, so expect him to be even more vocal in the future about blindside or irresponsible hits such as the one by Alex Ovechkin that ended his regular season.

Campbell was just as disturbed by James Wisniewski's hit to Brent Seabrook's head last week in Anaheim that led to an eight-game suspension for the Ducks defenseman.

"Personally, I was disgusted with it," Campbell said during an interview with Comcast SportsNet. "I thought it was gross. He should have been kicked out of the game. I couldn't believe it.

"To see him charge at a person all the way from the blue line and clearly jump and try to hurt somebody and maybe end the career of a guy who's a star in our league, it fired me up.

"I'm on the competition committee for the NHLPA, and we talked about this last summer that we want more suspensions and we want more fines to come of it."

No progress: Defenseman Kim Johnsson remains out indefinitely with a possible concussion.

Johnsson hasn't skated since suffering the injury March 13 at Philadelphia during a collision.

"Sometimes you try to pinpoint these types of injuries and you don't have a concrete answer," Joel Quenneville said. "You just have to see how they present and go from there."

Make a note: The April 11 regular-season finale against Detroit at the United Center will begin at 2 p.m. It originally had been listed as to be announced.