Martin Brodeur On Historic Journey
14/03/2009 18:25
Devils goalie can tie Roy as NHL's winningest goalie with victory against Habs
"The beauty of it," New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur says, "is how consistent you are. How much you're able to do game in and game out, year in and year out.
"The numbers, on average, will tell you how you do. But probably my best games are the ones I didn't win or didn't get a shutout. When you're doing your job, you're not thinking about saves and shutouts. You're battling to win a game."
Five hundred and fifty times in the regular season, Brodeur has won. With No. 551, to come perhaps as early as tonight at the Bell Centre against the Montreal Canadiens, he will equal Hall of Famer Patrick Roy's record as the NHL's winningest goaltender of all time.
A victory today and he can break Roy's record on Tuesday at home against the Chicago Blackhawks.
With four more shutouts, Brodeur will have blanked the opposition more often than anyone who has gone before, No. 104 to eclipse the so-called untouchable record of the late, legendary Terry Sawchuk.
And likely next November, Brodeur will pass Roy to become the goalie with the most regular-season career minutes played, his 60,236th a tribute to his health, longevity and enthusiasm. Thirty-four more games and that record is dust.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
The late, legendary Terry Sawchuk is my second favorite goalie of all time, behind the legendary Johnny Bower. What a thrill is was for me as a kid to see them team up in 1967 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and win the Leafs their last Stanley Cup.