Martin started playing hockey as a forward. Martin announced his son's selection to the crowd at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Martin's son Anthony was drafted by the New Jersey Devils with the 208th pick in the 7th round of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Martin's prowess at puck handling directly led the NHL to change its rules regarding where goalies were allowed to handle the puck outside of the goal crease. He is known for his puck handling, his positional play and his reflexes, especially with his glove hand. Martin uses a hybrid style of goaltending by standing up more than butterfly style goalies, though he has recently become more comfortable using modern techniques. He is a four-time Vezina Trophy winner, a five-time Jennings Trophy winner, a ten-time NHL All-Star, a Calder Memorial Trophy winner and one of only two NHL goaltenders to score a goal in both the regular season and the playoffs. He is the only goalie in NHL history with eight 40-win seasons. Martin has won at least 30 games in every season since 1995–96 with the exception of the 2010–11 season, an injury-shortened 2008–09 season in which he played just 31 games and the lockout-shortened 2012–13 season. Martin is the NHL's all-time leader in regular season wins (surpassing Patrick Roy in 2009), losses, shutouts, and games played, and holds numerous other league and franchise records. He has won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 20 Winter Olympic Games as well as several other medals with Team Canada in other international competitions. In his 21-year tenure with the Devils, Martin has won three Stanley Cup championships and has been in the playoffs every year but three. I’m so appreciative with all the fans, what the organization did for me.Martin Brodeur (born Martin Pierre Brodeur on May 6, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the New Jersey Devils. ![]() “Nobody’s going to associate me with the Blues as a hockey player and a retirement arrangement will be made for New Jersey in the future. “For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils,” Brodeur said. Not that I needed the blessing of Lou, but he understands it.”īrodeur made it clear how important his years with the Devils mean to him. Right now I’m just going to go all in on this. I’ll make a decision on my future whenever it comes around. I might just go and say playing golf every day looks a lot better than doing this. Louis Blue and I want to learn as much as I can and we’ll see where that’s going to bring me. “We talked and he knows that eventually we’re going to cross paths again, if it’s next year, in two years, in three years, I can’t answer,” Brodeur said. He also had 113 career post-season victories to go along with those three Cups and four Vezina Trophies as the NHL’s top goaltender. ![]() ![]() The native of Montreal holds the league records for wins, shutouts, games played and minutes played. 912 save percentage in 1,266 career regular-season games. Over 22 seasons, Brodeur piled up a 691-397-176 record, 2.24 GAA and. When I look up here and you see the number of Stanley Cups up here on this stage, all these people we can tap into as we learn and we move forward.” ![]() Louis with this team, it’s to prepare and be competitive to win a Stanley Cup and to ultimately win a Stanley Cup. “He’s going to travel with the team on a daily basis, he’s going to interact with our players and our coaches,” Armstrong said. “For me it was a great opportunity.”īlues general manager Doug Armstrong said the team was excited to have Brodeur join the team as a senior adviser. “If Ells (Elliott) didn’t get hurt, I was never going to be here,” Brodeur said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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