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Cristobal Huet (born September 3, 1975 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France) is a French professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for the NHL's Montreal Canadiens. Huet was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings as their seventh-round pick, 214th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.

Huet played for the Kings in 2002-2003, and 2003-2004. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in a three-team deal that sent Mathieu Garon to L.A. and Radek Bonk from Ottawa to Montreal. During the lockout, Huet played for Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He took the team to the finals, but lost four straight games to Eisbären Berlin.

In the 2005-06 Season, Huet made his name well known by playing who had ten shutouts in 74 games.

During the presentatioin of the players at the first home game for Montreal in October 2005, the presenter forgot to name Huet as part of the roster. However, this may be related to the fact that Huet was re-habbing his reconstructed knee in Switzerland until part way through the season, and would have been unable to skate onto the ice with the rest of the club.

He also won the Molson Cup in February of 2006. The Molson Cup is awarded monthly to the best Montreal Canadiens' player. He won the Best Defensive Player award from the NHL during the first week of March, ousting goaltenders such as the Ottawa Senators' Ray Emery and the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur, with a 3-0-0 record and a 1.67 GAA. And for the second time of the year, he was named NHL Best Defensive Player on April 3rd, with a 3-0-0 record, a 0.65 GAA and 0.979 SV%, ousting goaltenders Martin Brodeur, Miikka Kiprusoff and Manny Legace. On April 23, in his first ever Stanley Cup playoffs start, Huet starred in a 6-1 win against the 2nd seed in Eastern Conference -- the Carolina Hurricanes. Huet stopped 42 of 43 shots in the contest to put the Canadiens up 1-0 in the seven game series. Two days later, Huet recorded his 1st lifetime overtime playoff win, when the Canadiens beat the Hurricanes 6-5 in 2nd overtime to take the lead 2-0 in the series. But in the next 4 games, Huet and the Canadiens lost games 2-1, 3-2, 2-1 and 2-1 and the series in goaltender duels with rookie Cam Ward, who took Martin Gerber's No 1 spot in the series, and who would later go on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy. Huet's stats in the 2006 playoffs were: 2-4, 2.33 GAA, 0.929 SV%.

The Canadiens re-signed him on June 26 for two years at $5.75M total.