Martin Brodeur

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 2018
Martin Brodeur
Date of birth May 6, 1972
place of birth Montréal , Québec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 30
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 1st round, 20th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1989-1992 Saint-Hyacinthe laser
1992-2014 New Jersey Devils
2014-2015 St. Louis Blues

Martin Pierre Brodeur (born May 6, 1972 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former American - Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who played for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League from 1992 to 2014 and from December 2014 to January 2015 for the St Louis Blues was under contract. With three Stanley Cup victories, four Vezina Trophies , nine appearances in the NHL All-Star Game and two Olympic gold medals as well as numerous records, Brodeur is one of the best goalkeepers in the history of the NHL and was one of the most formative figures in ice hockey in the 1990s - and 2000s.

During his career in the NHL, Brodeur has won 40 or more wins in six seasons (the next best goalkeeper will have a maximum of three such seasons) and over 30 wins in ten consecutive seasons, something no other goalkeeper in the NHL has achieved. Brodeur is still the goalkeeper with the most wins (691), games without conceding goals (125) and uninterrupted playoff appearances in the NHL. In 2018 he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Brodeur has been part of the management of the New Jersey Devils since August 2018.

Career

Martin Brodeur played from 1988 to 1989 for the Montreal Bourassa in the QAAA. His father is the former goalkeeper Denis Brodeur ; his brother Claude (* 1959) also played ice hockey in his youth, but did not get beyond the QMJHL . In 1989 Brodeur moved to the ice hockey team of the Saint-Hyacinthe Laser in the QMJHL.

Brodeur in the dress of the New Jersey Devils

New Jersey Devils (1992-2014)

He was committed in the first round in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft in 20th place by the New Jersey Devils and has since played for the Devils. In the 1991/92 season , Brodeur played his first NHL game for the Devils. In 1992/93 he played a year in the AHL for the farm team Utica Devils before he switched completely to the Devils in the 1993/94 season and replaced the previous goalkeeper Chris Terreri there . Brodeur showed appealing performance in goal, so that after the regular season he was awarded the Calder Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL. In the play-offs he led his team to the Eastern Conference finals , where they were defeated by the New York Rangers . In the 1994/95 season , which was shortened to 48 games by the lockout, Brodeur impressed with strong performances in the play-offs and was jointly responsible for the Devils' entry into the final of the Stanley Cup. There they won the series against the favorite Detroit Red Wings surprisingly clearly in four games and thus became Stanley Cup winner.

In the 1995/96 season , Brodeur completed 74 of 82 games as a starting goalkeeper, setting a new record for the most minutes played by a goalie within a season. In addition, he remained clean in six games and took part in the NHL All-Star Game and the World Cup of Hockey 1996 , where he won the silver medal with Team Canada . In the following season 1996/97 Brodeur confirmed his form from previous years and achieved the lowest average goal keeper conceded in 30 years, for which he was awarded the William M. Jennings Trophy . In the first round of the play-offs, he scored the first goal of his career when his shot landed in the empty goal of the Montreal Canadiens . The following season ended the Canadian with a total of 43 wins and ten games without conceding a goal, but could not build on his performances from the main round in the play-offs. There he showed the worst play-off performance of his career so far with 20 goals conceded and a catch rate of 85.6%. In the 1999/00 season Brodeur was able to record 43 victories in the regular season and then convinced with outstanding performances in the play-offs. In the first round against the Florida Panthers he got only six goals conceded in four games, before he even played two games against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the following round without conceding and thus secured the Devils entry into the Eastern Conference finals. There the Philadelphia Flyers initially led 3-1 in the series, but Brodeur only conceded three goals in the following three games and thus ensured that the Devils turned the residue and moved into the final. In the final, they prevailed against the Dallas Stars and won the Stanley Cup for the second time in six years.

The 2000/01 season ended Brodeur for the third time in a row with more than 40 wins and played for the sixth time in a row at the NHL All-Star Game . In the first play-off round against the Carolina Hurricanes , the left catcher remained clean in two games, so that the Devils prevailed in the series in six games. He did the same in the Eastern Conference final against the Pittsburgh Penguins and was thus once again significantly involved in the Devils' return to the Stanley Cup final , where they were subject to the Colorado Avalanche . In the 2002/03 season Brodeur was ultimately able to win the Vezina Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the league, having been nominated frequently in previous years. The Canadian's play-off performance was rated as one of the best of his career and the most important factor in the Devils' third Stanley Cup win , where he went clean in three games in the final series against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . Nevertheless, his counterpart Jean-Sébastien Giguère was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the play-offs, which means that this trophy was not awarded to an actor from the team of the respective Stanley Cup winner for the first time since 1987. In the following season Brodeur again received the Vezina Trophy and the Jennings Trophy, but retired with the Devils in the first play-off round against the Philadelphia Flyers .

After the 2004/05 season was canceled due to a lockout , the Devils extended his contract by six years in January 2006 with a reported total salary of 31.2 million US dollars. In the first half of the 2005/06 season Brodeur had to struggle with some fluctuations in performance before he stabilized at the end of the season and led the Devils to first place in the Atlantic Division , but the elimination of his team in the second play-off round against the Carolina Hurricanes could not prevent. In the 2006/07 season , Brodeur's ninth participation in the NHL All-Star Game and his third win of the Vezina Trophy followed. In February 2007, the Canadian reached the 6: 5 success of his team against the Philadelphia Flyers, the 45th overtime victory of his career and thus set a new goalkeeping record in the history of the NHL. In the first 38 victories of the Devils in the season Brodeur was in goal, which he also marked a new record as goalkeeper with the most consecutive wins for a team. Furthermore, he achieved the 48th win of the season in April 2007, which no goalkeeper had previously achieved within one season. In the play-offs, the goalie showed rather mixed performances, so that the Devils were eliminated in the second round against the Ottawa Senators with 15 goals conceded in five games.

In the 2007/08 season, the Devils were eliminated in the first play-off round against rivals New York Rangers , an incident between Brodeur and opposing striker Sean Avery caused a stir. In the third game in the series, Avery, in his role as an agitator, had completely turned away from the actual game events during a double outnumbered game by the Rangers and was only concerned with positioning himself in front of Brodeur and distracting him with constant movement of his bat and hands or his view to lock on the puck. This behavior was rated as grossly unsportsmanlike behavior in the ice hockey scene, so that the NHL immediately expanded its set of rules to include the so-called Sean Avery Rule , which is intended to prevent such actions in the future. During the 2009/10 season he broke the shutout record of Terry Sawchuk , who finished 103 games in the NHL without conceding a goal during his playing career, and set a new record with 110 career shutouts by the end of the season. In summer 2012 he signed another two-year contract with the Devils.

On February 9, 2016 Brodeurs jersey number 30 was in a solemn ceremony of the Devils locked and is thus no longer adequate awarded franchise. His jersey is now hanging under the roof of the Prudential Center ; a statue of him was also unveiled in front of the arena. A little later he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018 .

St. Louis Blues and Retired (since 2015)

After the 2013/14 season and thus after 22 years, he left the New Jersey Devils to look for a new employer as a free agent . In December 2014, he signed a one-year contract with the St. Louis Blues , which reacted to the injury to their regular goalkeeper Brian Elliott . Not even two months later, Brodeur announced his official end of career as an active player on January 29, 2015 and switched to the management of the Blues. He was active there for over three years before returning to the New Jersey Devils in August 2018, where he was introduced as Executive Vice President of Business Development .

International

Brodeur has already played twice for Canada in an ice hockey world championship , in 1996 and 2005 . Brodeur also represented his country twice at the World Cup of Hockey , in 1996 and 2004 .

Brodeur was active four times at the Olympics , in 1998 as the third goalkeeper, and in 2002 as the first goalkeeper to win gold. In 2006 he played again as the first goalkeeper, but retired with the Canadians in the quarter-finals. In 2010 he was the second goalkeeper to become Olympic champion again.

Achievements and Awards

International

Remarkable

  • Brodeur has already scored three goals. The first goal he scored in the empty goal of the Canadiens de Montréal in a play-off game in the 1996/97 season. The second goal was credited to him in a 1999/2000 regular season game when Simon Gagné of the Philadelphia Flyers scored in his own goal and Brodeur was the last Devils player to touch the puck. The third goal was credited to him in a regular season game on March 21, 2013, when a Carolina Hurricanes player hit with a back pass into his own goal.
  • As only the second goalkeeper in NHL history, Brodeur reached the mark of 500 victories on November 17, 2007 with a 6-2 triumph over the Philadelphia Flyers .
  • Since the 2007/08 season, Brodeur has been the goalkeeper with the most seasons with more than 40 wins (7).
  • Since March 17, 2009, Martin Brodeur holds the record for most NHL games won by a goalkeeper.
  • On December 19, 2009, he set a new record with his 1030th game in the regular season, breaking Patrick Roy's previous record .
  • On December 21, 2009 he managed the 104th shutout of his career and is now the sole record holder (4-0 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins).
  • On April 19, 2012, he set a new record for the playoffs in a 4-0 win against the Florida Panthers with his 24th playoff shutout.

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
season team league GP W. L. T MIN GA SO ATM GP W. L. T MIN GA SO ATM
1989/90 Saint-Hyacinthe laser QMJHL 42 23 13 2 2333 156 0 4.01 12 5 7th - 678 46 0 4.07
1990/91 Saint-Hyacinthe laser QMJHL 52 22nd 24 4th 2946 162 2 3.30 4th 0 4th - 232 16 0 4.14
1991/92 Saint-Hyacinthe laser QMJHL 48 27 16 4th 2846 161 2 3.39 5 2 3 - 317 14th 0 2.65
New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 2 1 0 179 10 0 3.35 1 0 1 - 32 3 0 5.63
1992/93 Utica Devils AHL 32 14th 13 5 1952 131 0 4.03 4th 1 3 - 258 18th 0 4.19
1993/94 New Jersey Devils NHL 47 27 11 8th 2625 105 3 2.40 17th 8th 9 - 1171 38 1 1.94
1994/95 New Jersey Devils NHL 40 19th 11 6th 2184 89 3 2.45 20th 16 4th - 1222 34 3 1.67
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 77 34 30th 12 4434 173 6th 2.34 - - - - - - - -
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 67 37 14th 13 3838 120 10 1.88 10 5 5 - 659 19th 2 1.73
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 70 43 17th 8th 4127 130 10 1.89 6th 2 4th - 366 12 0 1.97
1998/99 New Jersey Devils NHL 70 39 21st 10 4239 162 4th 2.29 7th 3 4th - 425 20th 0 2.82
1999/00 New Jersey Devils NHL 72 43 20th 8th 4312 161 6th 2.24 23 16 7th - 1450 39 2 1.61
2000/01 New Jersey Devils NHL 72 42 17th 11 4297 166 9 2.32 25th 15th 10 - 1505 52 4th 2.07
2001/02 New Jersey Devils NHL 73 38 26th 9 4347 156 4th 2.15 6th 2 4th - 381 9 1 1.42
2002/03 New Jersey Devils NHL 73 41 23 9 4374 147 9 2.02 24 16 8th - 1491 41 7th 1.65
2003/04 New Jersey Devils NHL 75 38 26th 11 4555 154 11 2.03 5 1 4th - 298 13 0 2.62
2004/05 no team due to NHL lockout - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2005/06 New Jersey Devils NHL 73 43 23 7th 4365 187 5 2.57 9 5 4th - 533 20th 1 2.25
2006/07 New Jersey Devils NHL 78 48 23 7th 4696 171 12 2.18 11 5 6th - 688 28 1 2.44
2007/08 New Jersey Devils NHL 77 44 27 6th 4635 168 4th 2.17 5 1 4th - 300 16 0 3.19
2008/09 New Jersey Devils NHL 31 19th 9 3 1814 73 5 2.41 7th 3 4th - 427 17th 1 2.39
2009/10 New Jersey Devils NHL 77 45 25th 6th 4499 168 9 2.24 5 1 4th - 299 15th 0 3.01
2010/11 New Jersey Devils NHL 56 23 26th 3 3116 127 6th 2.45 - - - - - - - -
2011/12 New Jersey Devils NHL 59 31 21st 4th 3392 136 3 2.41 24 14th 9 - 1471 51 1 2.12
2012/13 New Jersey Devils NHL 29 13 9 7th 1757 65 2 2.22 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 New Jersey Devils NHL 39 19th 14th 6th 2297 96 3 2.51 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 St. Louis Blues NHL 7th 3 3 0 356 17th 1 2.87 - - - - - - - -
QMJHL total 142 72 53 10 8125 479 4th 3.54 21st 7th 14th - 1227 76 0 3.72
AHL total 32 14th 13 5 1952 131 0 4.03 4th 1 3 - 258 18th 0 4.19
NHL overall 1266 691 397 154 74438 2781 125 2.24 205 113 91 - 12717 428 24 2.02

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Personal

In addition to his father Denis Brodeur (1930–2013) and his brother Claude Brodeur (* 1959), who were once active as ice hockey players, his sons Anthony Brodeur (* 1995) and the twins Jeremy Brodeur and William Brodeur (* 1996) also play in this sport. Before every game, Brodeur kissed the back of his mask , where the first letters of the names of his four children are.

Web links

Commons : Martin Brodeur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brodeur has No. 30 retired. nhl.com, February 9, 2016, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Blues Sign Brodeur to One-Year Deal , accessed January 28, 2015
  3. ↑ Brodeur to Announce Retirement Thursday , accessed January 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brodeur, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodeur, Martin Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec