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To him, you aren't just a goalie, you are THE goalie. He recently received his first set of pads and he calls them his, "Marty Pads". For every save he makes, he makes me chant, "Marty!Marty!Marty!"
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NHL.COM SPECIAL SECTION BRODEUR WATCH
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
LISTEN TO MARTY ABOUT BECOMING A U.S.CITIZEN ON NEWJERSEYDEVILS.COM
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.