His answer , I will never forget it....he said "Mar-ten Broduer" ...
I was playing catch with a football on the beach way back in 1995,this family I befriended one week who was down from Canada, had two small kids like age 10 and 12 maybe....anyway they were ciustomers of mine and I got to know them a little , one day I asked the two kids at seperate times who their favorite athlete was...I figured they'd say a baseball player for some reason, wrong.
Both kids without hesitation said Marten Brodeur, they both pronounced it funny , it always stuck with me...
I remember thinking of all the players they could have said, wonder why they said him, he's only been around a couple years and he's on New Jersey.
12 years later he's the arguably the best goalie of all time....and those kids are now in their 20's :lolBIG:
At 35 Brodeur is still at the very top of his game and on pace to pass Patrick Roy
The numbers are staggering, yet the Brodeur would barely be recognized by the average American.
All-Time
I was playing catch with a football on the beach way back in 1995,this family I befriended one week who was down from Canada, had two small kids like age 10 and 12 maybe....anyway they were ciustomers of mine and I got to know them a little , one day I asked the two kids at seperate times who their favorite athlete was...I figured they'd say a baseball player for some reason, wrong.
Both kids without hesitation said Marten Brodeur, they both pronounced it funny , it always stuck with me...
I remember thinking of all the players they could have said, wonder why they said him, he's only been around a couple years and he's on New Jersey.
12 years later he's the arguably the best goalie of all time....and those kids are now in their 20's :lolBIG:
At 35 Brodeur is still at the very top of his game and on pace to pass Patrick Roy
The numbers are staggering, yet the Brodeur would barely be recognized by the average American.
All-Time
- 2nd place - Most wins (480)*
- 3rd place - Most shutouts (91)**
- 1st place - Most overtime wins (45)***
- Most consecutive 30-win seasons (11)<SUP class=reference id=_ref-30and10_0>[20]</SUP>
- Most consecutive 35-win seasons (10)
- Most 40-win seasons (5)
- Only NHL goalie to score a game-winning goal
- One of only 2 NHL goalies to score a goal in
both the regular season and the playoffs
