New Jersey Devils veteran netminder Martin Brodeur refuses to feel age, call it quits-NHL News
The New Jersey Devils veteran netminder, Martin Brodeur, has refused to feel the age in spite of pushing 40 and call it quits from the professional hockey league.
Brodeur, who has been a part of Devils’ good and bad times for many seasons, seems to have started enjoying hockey lately more than ever before and while other veterans are giving serious consideration to their retirement plans, he looks not finished yet.
Devils are most likely to make it to playoffs from the Eastern Conference and if compared with one of their worst seasons run of last year, Brodeur has impressive numbers to prove his fitness and stamina for more games, this year.
Past NHL season was the Devils worst in 20 years. The team had ended up as playoffs disqualifiers, and it turned out be the disappointing time of Brodeur’s career. However, this year he is excited over the team’s successful progress in the regular season.
He said:
"Last year was a real grind, trust me. It was not a fun year. That's one of the reasons why I thought this year could be the last, because I didn't enjoy it.”
It was seen then that the goaltender might join the list of veterans in the team to call it a career but he has successfully manage to beat all those times adding up to his age.
This year he already has 26 wins and with several games still left in the regular season the number is still three games higher over the previous year’s total number of games.
Brodeur, who is very talkative and open to media talk, has refused to discuss anything regarding his retirement, saying he has just started having fun on the ice.
The player added:
"I'm having fun. It's been a great year so far. But I'm not 100 percent sure what I want do to yet."
It is not that the netminder just wants to hang around for more seasons he has impressive record through out the professional career and even before that.
He has won the Stanley Cup three times, one each in 1995, 2000 and 2003. He twice represented Canada in Olympics and won gold medals, one each in the year 2002 and 2010. The win in the Vezina Trophy is an additional distinct achievement in his career.
The player has never looked back or settled down since joining the professional hockey league as draft player in 1990 and on the way to current season has made and broken a number of records.
However, their is a problem for him now that he is in the final year of his contract with Devils and it can turn out of his last season unless the team resigns him on fresh terms.
Otherwise, it will be rather difficult for him to play more professional hockey given the fact he is unlikely to join for a side other than Devils.
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