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2009-2010 Stats and Records chase

SeasonTeamGPMINWL
OTLGAASOGASA
SA%
2009-10 NJ Devils 53 3.083 33
17   0
2.24
7
115 1404 .918

GP : Games played, MIN : Minutes, W : Wins, L : Lost, OTL : Overtime Lost, GAA : Goals against average, SO : Shutouts, GA : Goals Against, SA : Save, SA% : Save percentage.

Possibly Set in 2009-10

BRODEUR

ROY

SAWCHUCK

 

Most Regular Season Shutouts

NEW RECORD

108

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103

Most Games Played All Time

NEW RECORD

1,052

 

 

1,029

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Most 30 Win Seasons

13

12

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Most Minutes Played All Time

 

NEW RECORD 

62,104

 

 

 

60,225

 

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Most Post-Season Shutouts

23

23

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Martin Brodeur is the MVP of the decade

By John Kreiser  - NHL.com Columnist

Throughout the week, NHL.com is presenting a look at the best players, top teams, biggest moments and greatest achievements during the first decade of the new century. The selections were made by a panel of NHL.com writers and other hockey experts. Today, we look at the MVP of the decade.

Martin Brodeur already was among the NHL's goaltending elite at the start of this decade. Ten years later, the New Jersey Devils' netminder is alone at the top.

Brodeur was the easy winner among our voting panel as the most valuable player of the 2000s, topping Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, who, in turn, was far ahead of anyone else, including Jarome Iginla, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin.

Brodeur and Lidstrom both led their teams to a pair of Stanley Cup triumphs during the decade (Brodeur in 2000 and 2003; Lidstrom in '02 and '08). Both also got their teams within one game of repeating as champions (Brodeur in 2001, Lidstrom eight years later). Both will go into the Hall of Fame as soon as they are eligible.

But Brodeur has combined durability and excellence to a degree unmatched by any other player at hockey's most demanding position in NHL history.

Consider his achievements during 2009 alone. On March 17, he became the winningest regular-season goaltender in NHL history when he beat the Chicago Blackhawks for his 552 nd career victory, surpassing Patrick Roy. On Nov. 27, he passed Roy again for the minutes-played record by a goaltender.

On Dec. 7, Brodeur tied Terry Sawchuk's nearly 40-year-old mark for career shutouts with the 103rd of his career. Eleven days later, he passed Roy again by playing the record-setting 1,030 th regular-season game of his career. He capped his year Monday with shutout No. 104, blanking the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 at Mellon Arena to move past Sawchuk. Of his 104 shutouts, 65 have come since Jan. 1, 2000.

But while records are great, the most important thing for Brodeur at the end of the day is putting up another "W" - he's got a League-leading 23 already this season after the victory in Pittsburgh, which put the Devils on top in the overall NHL standings.

"It's not as important as winning," Brodeur said of passing the games-played record. "The reason why I'm here is to win hockey games. But I guess it says a lot about being a good goalkeeper, staying around so long. People seem to make a lot more about it than I do. I guess you have to love the game to be able to stick around."

He must love it a lot, because playing a lot of games is a Brodeur trademark. Before missing 50 games last season with a torn biceps muscle - the first serious injury of his career - Brodeur had played at least 70 games for nine-consecutive seasons. In all, he's done it 10 times - and is well on the way to No. 11 with 33 appearances already this season.

In his case, just showing up really is a big part of his success.

"I think I based a lot of my career on being durable, playing a lot of games and being consistent," he said. "To play that many games, I think it adds up to being durable and being successful. If you're not successful, the coach doesn't put you in the net for that many games. Definitely, it's been nice playing a lot of games."

But playing a lot of games is one thing. Playing well is another. His calm demeanor and hybrid style of play - he's incorporated elements of the classic standup and butterfly into a style uniquely his own - have made him unique.

"I've learned through the years to incorporate other things from other goalies," he said. "I just play the game. My style is whatever people make it up to be. I just have to stop that puck. I have to figure a way out sometimes. Sometimes it's not really nice but it's been working pretty good, I guess."

That's an understatement. In addition to the career record for victories and shutouts, Brodeur holds the single-season record for victories with 48 in 2006-07. He owns the record for total 40-victory seasons (7) and the most consecutive 40-win seasons (3, from 2005-06 to 2007-08). 

Devils coach Jacques Lemaire owns an interesting perspective on Brodeur, having coached him during the first few years of his career, then again this season after coming back to New Jersey after more than a decade away from the team.

Lemaire feels Brodeur's demeanor and play have not changed since his first stint as coach,
"Exactly the same goalie," Lemaire said recently when asked if he saw any difference between the 1990s and 2000s models of Brodeur. "He's strong mentally. He's a guy that loves the game and works to get as good as he can every day. So, he hasn't changed."

And what does Brodeur's coach see as the keys to his success?

"He's got to be good. That's one," Lemaire said. "Otherwise, they'll send him to the minors. And, secondly, I think he's got to love the game. You have to love the game if you last that long."

To look at Brodeur, there's nothing that would indicate he might be the greatest goaltender ever to put on pads. He's listed at 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds, and aside from his state-of-the-art approach to handling the puck, there's no individual part of his game that screams "greatness."

But as Ottawa rookie Erik Karlsson found out in his first game against Brodeur last Friday, appearances can be deceiving.

"If you look at him, you can't understand how he could be so good," Karlsson said after Ottawa's 4-2 loss at the Prudential Center. "He doesn't look so big, but somehow he saves a lot of great shots."

 

"It's pretty incredible. The records are piling up. He's a legendary goalie and he proves it every year." -- Sidney Crosby on Martin Brodeur

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, whose team was on the receiving end of shutout No. 104, is pretty impressed as well.

"It's pretty incredible. The records are piling up,'' Crosby said of Brodeur - his teammate-to-be with Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in February. "He's a legendary goalie and he proves it every year."

Perhaps the most amazing thing about Brodeur is his calmness. He's virtually unflappable - a rarity at his position - and is a master at not making playing goal any harder than it has to be, whether that means making the big stop when it's needed or shaking off the occasional bad goal or off-night.

"I make the game easy on myself, but the demeanor, I think the pressure I don't feel as much as maybe other guys," he said. "Maybe that helps me to play more, but I'm not in anybody else's shoes. I know for me this is a fun game and it's fun coming to the rink every day and it's fun being a part of a great organization that trusts you to be in the net for them."

Brodeur has no intention of ending the fun. At age 37, with 16 NHL seasons, he appears to be enjoying hockey as much as he did when he was winning the Calder Trophy in 1993-94. There's no telling how far he'll have pushed some of his records by the time he finally decides he's had enough.

"As long as he wants to win, he's going to continue to own every record," Lemaire said. "He's going to continue to pile up the wins."

 

 

Game hightlights 104th shutout video

Martin Brodeur after his 104. shutout interview

Brodeur reflects on record-setting 104th shutout

By Dan Rosen  - NHL.com Staff Writer

Vulcanized rubber ringing off an iron post has always been one of Martin Brodeur's favorite sounds, but it was perhaps never more beautiful than with 102 seconds remaining in Monday's game in Pittsburgh.

When Sidney Crosby's wrist shot from about 15 feet in front of the crease sizzled past the New Jersey Devils' legendary goalie, for a millisecond, if even that long, it appeared as if history would have to wait.

PING!

Crosby's shot hit off the right post and came back into play. Shutout No. 104 was intact.

"It was nice to hear it and then to be able to see the puck in front of me," Brodeur told NHL.com Tuesday morning, 13 or so hours after making even more history.

Less than a minute later, Evgeni Malkin had a chance from the slot, but Brodeur snared his attempt out of the air with his catching glove, holding the puck as tight as he holds on to his infant son, Maxime.

Whether the puck was targeted for the net, the post or the back wall didn't matter.

"When you have Malkin two feet in front of you," Brodeur explained, "you just think you gotta get your glove on it."

Brodeur got something -- be it his glove, blocker, stick or body -- on every one of the 35 shots he faced Monday night to preserve a 4-0 victory and his record-breaking 104th career shutout, giving him sole possession of another NHL record, one that may be unbreakable.

Terry Sawchuk held the record of 103 shutouts for 39 years until Brodeur tied him Dec. 7 at Buffalo. Now armed with 104 shutouts and many more games ahead of him, who knows where Brodeur, 37, will leave the record once he's done playing?

"Hockey has changed and I think selling the game of hockey through offense doesn't help the goalies to achieve this goal, but you have goalies that are exceptional and you never know," said Brodeur, the League's all-time wins leader with 580 and counting. "It'll be pretty tough (to break), but kids coming up will have something to shoot for. Maybe it'll be the goalie I have in my hands right now (Maxime)."

To Brodeur, the number 104 is, in a word, "impressive."

His closest competition among active goalies is Detroit's Chris Osgood, who has 50. Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabokov each have 49.

"It's just mind boggling because of the fact that the active goalies are so far behind," Brodeur said. "Even the guys that are behind, they are my age. The gap between everybody and the length of the record holder that had it before me, all that together kind of makes me shake my head sometimes and think, 'That's impressive.' "

Unlike last year, when he counted the games and figured out that he could tie Patrick  Roy's wins record in Montreal and then break it back home in New Jersey, Brodeur had no idea when his next shutout was coming.

All he knew is that, eventually, it would come. You can't argue with the law of averages.

"Usually I get one shutout every 10 games. That's my average," Brodeur said. Actually, it's one for every 9.92 appearances if you want to get technical about it. "That's the way I went about thinking about the record. I thought, 'It's going to happen because those are the odds.' It was easier for me to go through it because of that. If I win, I know there will be some that come by way of shutout."

His belief in that philosophy stems from the incredible buy-in from teammates throughout the years. He is "the fruit of this record" because there is a commitment from the organization to put a winner on the ice and from teammates who take as much pride in getting a shutout as Brodeur.

Monday night was a perfect example. Instead of going for the jugular and making it 5-0 or 6-0, the Devils did their best to preserve the shutout by chipping pucks out of the zone like it was a Stanley Cup Playoffs game.

The game was in hand and the shutout had to stay intact. That is the Devil way.

"Guys don't brag about saying they were part of so many shutouts last year, but these guys are doing it," Brodeur said. "They take a lot of pride in it. They think of it as a way of getting in people's heads for the next time we play them.

"I'm back there stopping the puck, but there are a lot of things happening in front of me."

And there was things happening all around him Monday night. While Brodeur enjoyed reveling in the historic moment, he took great pleasure from seeing his teammates do the same thing.

"I'm not on the bench and it's hard to know what people feel, but you could tell how involved they were after the game they were coming up to me and congratulating me," Brodeur said. "They were saying they were so nervous at the end; that they didn't want to make a mistake. It was fun. It was cool.

"Guys took pictures with me and the puck," he continued. "The training staff, the coaching staff, and Lou (Lamoriello), they were all excited. It was nice. You feel it's my thing, but a record like this, they were happy to be a part of it."

Brodeur kept his celebrating to a minimum, though. He did so quietly at a friend's house back in Jersey late Tuesday night and was joined by some teammates after they made the return trip from Pittsburgh.

"We had a couple of beers and just hung out," Brodeur said, downplaying it. "Celebrating these things...I'm not done playing the game so there will be more."

There will also be many more times where he's saved by his good friends, the right and the left posts. That ping will always be a pleasant sound, but maybe never again will echo the way it did Monday night in Pittsburgh.

"Everybody was on edge to see if I was going to do it or not," Brodeur said. "They stormed it up pretty good at the end. We survived."

Contact Dan Rosen at drosen@nhl.com

Brodeur blanks Sabres, ties Sawchuk

Monday, 12.07.2009 / 11:18 PM

Brian Hunter  - NHL.com Staff Writer

 

 



Another of hockey's legendary records stands ready to fall at the hands of Martin Brodeur.

The New Jersey Devils goaltender, who became the all-time winningest goaltender late last season when he surpassed Patrick Roy's old mark of 552, tied the NHL record for career shutouts Monday night when he stopped all 22 shots by the Buffalo Sabres in a 3-0 win at HSBC Arena.

It was the 103rd shutout of Brodeur's illustrious career, tying him with Hall of Fame goaltender Terry Sawchuk, who accomplished the mark in 971 career games for the Red Wings, Bruins, Maple Leafs, Kings and Rangers.

"I think with the last few games, we had a couple going into the third with no goals," said Brodeur, who had been waiting to tie the record since his last shutout on Oct. 17 against Carolina.

"When it was nine minutes left I was like, well let's try to beat this, and then move on to five minutes and really think about it in the last five minutes. The guys played really well in front of me and made a big difference in why we were able to get a shutout, but especially a big win."

The victory was the 575th of Brodeur's career. He is also five appearances shy of surpassing Roy's record of 1,029 games.

''He's one of the best there is and there's a lot of reasons for it,'' Devils GM Lou Lamoriello told The Associated Press. ''He loves the game, and he works at it every day. He respects his teammates, and is a team player. He's been with us from Day 1, and he's never changed. No matter what success he has, he's the same person and he loves to win.''

Brian Rolston scored the only goal Brodeur would need with 2:09 left in the first period, beating Sabres goalie Ryan Miller from in close. Travis Zajac added to the lead 67 seconds later with a blast from just inside the blue line that trickled through Miller, and Niclas Bergfors struck on a power play 38 seconds into the middle period.

Bergfors, in his rookie season with the Devils, didn't quite comprehend the magnitude of the game until his captain informed him.

''I told him that Marty set a record, and he said, 'Another record?''' Jamie Langenbrunner said. ''It's pretty amazing ... it's hard enough to get 100 wins in this League, let alone 100 shutouts. Obviously it's pretty special.''

Miller, who entered Monday leading the League in goals-against average (1.85) and save percentage (.936), finished with 34 saves.

''If you're going to lose, at least you're here for something good with that,'' Miller said. ''He's a great goalie and has accomplished a lot. That's a lot of shutouts.''

Brodeur stopped five shots in the first period, seven in the second and 10 in the third. Playing behind Jacques Lemaire's defensive system and defensemen like Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer and Ken Daneyko for much of his career, Brodeur got used to games where he had to stay sharp despite not seeing a lot of pucks.

"I think you have to stay in the game by talking a lot and communicating with your players and playing the puck a bit," Brodeur said. "It was nice. We just dominated the first two periods, and especially in the second, early on, it was nice to see. We don't see that a lot in New Jersey, but the guys played really well and hopefully we'll gain confidence from that."


"'He's one of the best there is and there's a lot of reasons for it.  He loves the game, and he works at it every day. He respects his teammates, and is a team player. He's been with us from Day 1, and he's never changed. No matter what success he has, he's the same person and he loves to win."
-- Lou Lamoriello on Martin Brodeur

With the shutout on the line in the third, Brodeur stopped a hard shot by Thomas Vanek with about 8:40 left. Drew Stafford's shot following a defensive zone turnover by the Devils was turned aside by Brodeur with 7:40 remaining. He stopped Jason Pominville from the side of the net with 5:06 left.

''We made it pretty easy on him,'' Pominville said. ''I don't think we had 10 shots after two periods. Against the best goalie in the world, you give him 10 shots, he's not going to let up much.''

Brodeur recorded his first career shutout on Oct. 20, 1993, in a 4-0 win over Anaheim at the Meadowlands. His career high for shutouts was 12 during the 2006-07 season. He also posted 11 in 2003-04 and had back-to-back seasons with 10 in 1996-97 and 1997-98.

Among goaltenders currently active, Detroit's Chris Osgood has the second-most shutouts with 50, while Vancouver's Roberto Luongo and San Jose's Evgeni Nabokov follow with 49 apiece.

"I just look behind me and there's nobody close," Brodeur said. "That's pretty impressive to see so many shutouts. But I think it's just a lot of credit to the organization I've been playing all my career, the commitment defensively I think all the players who went through this organization while I was here that they made. It became a big number and hopefully it won't stop there."

With the victory, the Devils are 20-7-1, the best start through 28 games in franchise history. Their third straight win moved them into a tie for first with Pittsburgh in the Atlantic

 

Devils' Martin Brodeur now a U.S. citizen

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Martin Brodeur is now an American. But don't worry, Canada, he's not about to go Brett Hull on us and play for the United States.

Brodeur, the odds-on favourite to again be Canada's starting goalie at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, passed his citizenship test early Tuesday morning in Newark, then walked across the street to the Prudential Center and joined the New Jersey Devils at their practice.

"You don't have to worry about that," Brodeur said to a suggestion that he might at some point consider playing for the Americans. "Whenever you play for a country, you can't go back. And I want to play for Canada. That's where I'm from."

The 37-year-old Montreal native is having another solid season with the Devils. He enters Wednesday's game against the Vancouver Canucks sporting a 2.05 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage. Brodeur has allowed two goals or less in 13 of his past 15 starts, and one or less in eight of those.

Brodeur performed as well on his citizenship test as he has on the ice all these years. He was perfect. He answered his first six questions correctly, including one on the number of U.S Supreme Court justices. The answer is nine.

"You had to get 60 per cent [on 10 questions], so I got my first six and they stopped after that," he said.

Brodeur said it just felt natural for him to formally apply for his U.S. citizenship. Other than the two months he spends in Quebec each summer, New Jersey has been his home for the past 17 years.

"All my kids are American first of all," he said. "I make my home here. This is where I live most of the time and I think it was just a process. I went through getting a working visa, then a green card and the next step was to be able to be a citizen and I took the option to do it."

Brodeur had to explain to his parents that he wasn't renouncing his Canadian citizenship.

"My parents didn't understand what it was exactly - they said you're going to have to give up everything in Canada and it's like you are going to get locked in the States. I said, don't worry, you keep your dual citizenship. I still have my Canadian passport and everything is going to be all right. They were pretty happy about it. They know my life is here. All my grown up life is being here in New Jersey."

NJ Devils goalie Martin Brodeur named NHL's second star of the week

By Rich Chere/The Star-Ledger

November 30, 2009, 5:08PM

 

One day before he will become a United States citizen, Devils goalie Martin Brodeur was name the NHL's second star for the week ending Nov. 29.

Brodeur went 3-0-0 record with a 0.97 goals-against average and .963 save percentage as the Devils improved to 17-6-1.

He allowed one goal each of his three starts, beginning with a 24-save performance in a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators Nov. 25.

Brodeur set the NHL record for career minutes by a goaltender in a 2-1 shootout win at Boston Nov. 27, passing Patrick Roy (60,235) in the second period, and closed the week by stopping 22 shots in a 6-1 victory over the New York Islanders Nov. 28. Brodeur has appeared in 22 of the Devils' 24 games, posting a 15-6-1 record with a 2.05 goals-against average, .925 save percentage and one shutout. He needs one shutout to tie Terry Sawchuk's all-time record (103) and eight appearances to match Roy's mark for career games by a goaltender (1,029).

Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby was first star and Toronto's Niklas Hagman second star.

NJD NOTES

Martin Brodeur was back at practice Tuesday after welcoming a new addition to the family. Maxime Phillippe Brodeur arrived a little after noon on Monday, weighing in at a little over eight pounds.

"It went really well," Brodeur said. "A big, healthy baby."

Brodeur said that he and his wife, Genevieve, did have one goal in mind when choosing the name of their new son.

"Anything they could say in French and English pretty easy," Brodeur said, explaining that he's heard about a half-dozen different pronunciations for "Martin."

"I figured that's pretty easy, and all my other kids are the same way," he said.

Maxime joins Brodeur's three sons, Anthony, twins William and Jeremy, and daughter, Anabelle Antoinette. Brodeur has each of their first initials on the back of his helmet, and had already added an "M" for Maxime.

"It's already on," he said. "My boy Alex (Abasto, Devils' assistant equipment manager) does it every time for me, until I get it really painted."

Brodeur organizes Hall of Fame surprise

Tuesday, 11.10.2009 / 4:03 PM / News

By Eric Marin

Martin Brodeur managed to keep it a secret, even from the Man of the Hour, himself.

But by the time Lou Lamoriello gave his speech at Monday's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, he knew that some of his players had secretly made the trip to Toronto. Joining Brodeur were David Clarkson, Jay Pandolfo, Zach Parise, Colin White and captain Jamie Langenbrunner.

Former Devils Ken Daneyko and Slava Fetisov attended, as did assistant coach and 2007 Hall inductee Scott Stevens, who returned to New Jersey early Tuesday morning. Lamoriello was enshrined along with Brett Hull, Brian Leetch, Luc Robitaille and Steve Yzerman.

"It was pretty special," Brodeur said. "The list of people that were there was impressive. He didn't see us before, so somebody spilled the beans. It was still a surprise to him that we were there."

Brodeur wasn't sure how much Lamoriello, known for being detail-oriented, appreciated surprises.

"I think for that occasion probably not really," Brodeur said. "I think for that occasion he seemed pretty happy. We were happy just to be there and a lot of people from around the League came over to us and said, ‘It's nice of you guys.' You look at (Detroit Red Wing Nicklas) Lidstrom was there for Stevie and Luc and Brett and (Dallas Stars' captain) Brendan Morrow was there. There was a lot of active players going and doing that. It was a good night; it was fun."

Brodeur said plans for the Hall of Fame surprise began about two weeks ago after he and Langenbrunner figured there wasn't much they could get for the architect of the Devils' three Stanley Cup titles.

"Me and Jamie talked about what we were going to get him," Brodeur said. "Seriously, what are you going to get him? I said I'll make a few phone calls, maybe we can just go and surprise him there. We called and asked Scotty (Stevens) about it for tickets and stuff, and he said it's not that easy to get all that stuff. Six tickets right on the floor? Even though it's two weeks ahead, it's still last minute. But we scrambled, and good thing we've won a few Cups; we had a couple of people there. Everything worked out well."

The hard part was keeping it all hush-hush.

"It was just like, keep it quiet, and if we have to pay the consequences, so be it," Brodeur said. "He was really happy. He couldn't believe it. It was fun. It was fun to see him and see everybody around him, his family, it was a lot of people."

Lamoriello acknowledged the attending players in his speech, adding, "I'm hoping that you spent a little of your money and chartered a flight so you can make curfew."

As for whether or not they did, Brodeur said, "Depends on what curfew is."

Brodeur, the winningest goaltender in NHL history and a future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, had never been to the Hall before.

"This was my first time there, and it's impressive," he said. "I had a good conversation with (Hall of Fame goalie) Johnny Bower, so it was pretty cool. (Louisville men's basketball coach) Rick Pitino was there, and Nieuwy (Dallas GM and former Devil Joe Nieuwendyk). I've seen a lot of guys because of things I've done in my career, but some of the guys, even though they've been playing a lot of years and don't have that opportunity to meet everybody."

It was Parise's second trip to the Hall and his first since he was "seven or eight." He said it was a special night, all around.

"I guess it was a long time coming," Parise said of Lamoriello's induction. "Everyone expected it or knew it was going to come. But it was cool. Someone that you know, someone that you see every day, it's a great honor and really well-deserved."

The Devils' leading scorer had hoped to keep the trip a secret until after the ceremony.

"Somehow he found out," he said "I don't know who squealed, but he ended up finding out that we were there. Hopefully, we won't get into too much trouble."

It didn't seem as though any consequences would result from the gesture.

"He seemed like he was really happy that we were there and that we showed up," Parise said. "He seemed really appreciative."

Langenbrunner agreed.

"I think he was," said the captain. "He never would've asked anyone to come and probably would never have OK'd anybody to come, but we did it and tried to honor him in our own way. I think he appreciated that."

Langenbrunner also watched two former teammates enter the Hall.

"For me, I was fortunate enough to play with a few of those guys, Hull when he was in Dallas, and Brian Leetch in the Olympics and World Cup," he said. "Just all the players that are there, it's pretty amazing seeing those guys honored. Being in that same building was a lot of fun."


Sher-Wood and Hockey Legend Martin Brodeur Ink Endorsement Deal

NHL World Record Holding Canadian Goalie to Team with Iconic Canadian

Hockey Brand

SHERBROOKE, QC, July 29 /CNW/ - Sher-Wood Hockey Inc. announced today
that it has entered into a long-term endorsement arrangement with Canadian
goalie Martin Brodeur, who holds the all time world record for NHL game-wins.
Together they have entered into an exclusive multi-year agreement for Mr.
Brodeur's use of Sher-Wood branded goalie equipment in all NHL and
Internationally sanctioned events such as the Olympics. The contract spans the
hockey giant's on-ice career, as well as, the development of his MB30 brand of
hockey related merchandise. Mr. Brodeur will also act as an official
Ambassador for Sher-Wood.

"We are thrilled and excited to be entering into this new partnership with Martin Brodeur," said Ralph Trott, President and CEO of Sher-Wood Hockey
Inc. "Martin is a legend in the sport of hockey, and Sher-Wood has a great tradition with the sport. We think it is the perfect team."Martin Brodeur said, "When I picked up the Sher-Wood stick it just felt right. I started out as a kid playing hockey in St. Leonard with a Sher-Wood stick. This feels like coming home. Not only is the Sher-Wood equipment superbly engineered for play at my level, but at the same time I feel like I am doing something to help re-energize a brand that has its roots right here in Ma Belle Province. "

The agreement between Sher-Wood and Martin Brodeur is effective
immediately. Martin Brodeur plays goal with the New Jersey Devils and will now
wear and use Sher-Wood protective gear and stick while building on his
incredible record in the net. He will exclusively use Sher-Wood Goalie Pads,
Blocker, Catcher Glove, Sticks etc. In addition Martin has chosen Sher-Wood
Hockey as his partner, through a long term Licence Agreement to develop and
distribute unique new hockey related products under the MB30 and Martin
Brodeur trademarks. The company will work with him to capture his image and
hockey legacy in a manner that meets the needs of his world wide fan base.
"Over the past year we have launched an aggressive action plan to make
Sher-Wood a worldclass hockey company," said Ralph Trott, "... this
endorsement represents a major step toward achieving our plans."

 

 


About Sher-Wood Hockey Inc.


Sher-Wood hockey sticks and protective gear have been the products of first choice for professional and recreational players around the globe. Its roots can be traced back to the late 1940's. Sher-Wood Hockey Inc. was formed
in June 2008 to purchase the hockey assets of the company formerly known as Sher-Wood Drolet. In September, it purchased the hockey novelty and licence assets of the company formerly known as Inglasco. And in December 2008 the company purchased the hockey assets of TPS Sports Group, another leading manufacturer and distributor of hockey sticks and protective equipment.


About Martin Brodeur


Now in his 15th season with the New Jersey Devils, Martin Brodeur ranks
among the all-time great NHL hockey goalies. He was born May 6th, 1972 in
Montreal, Quebec. He was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in 1990 and played
his first season with the NHL in 1993-1994. That year he received the Calder
Trophy awarded to the Rookie of the Year. In 1995, 2000 and 2003, with Martin
in net, the Devils won the Stanley Cup. He is the NHL's all-time leader in
regular season wins by a goaltender and ranks second in all-time season
shutouts. Playing for Team Canada in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games his
team took gold. He played his minor career with the Saint-Leonard Minor Hockey
Association in Montreal.