EVEN STEVEN SPIELBERG COULD NOT WRITE AND DIRECT THIS MOVIE…
ON SATURDAY IN MONTREAL…ON HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA…
IN A SEASON THE CANADIANS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 100TH BIRTHDAY…
MARTIN BRODEUR WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH PATRICK ROY…FOR MOST WINS…ALL TIME…BY A GOALTENDER…
THE MAGIC NUMBER IS 551…
BRODEUR WAS BORN AND RAISED IN MONTREAL…
HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD WHEN ROY BROKE INTO THE NHL AND LED THE CANADAIANS TO THE FIRST OF TWO STANLEY CUPS…
EVEN HOLLYWOOD DOES NOT MAKE A HEROS THAT BIG…
IN HIS CAREER BRODEUR HAS TRADITIONALLY SAVED HIS BEST FOR THE HABS…
HE HAS 34 VICTORIES AGAINST THEM…MORE THAN ANY OTHER NON-DIVISIONAL TEAM…
8 TIMES HE HAS SHUTOUT THE CANADAINS…
AND HIS GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE AGAINST THE HABS IS 1.80…
THE BEST AGAINST ANY TEAM IN THE NHL…
THE DEBATE NOW IS…
WHO’S THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME…BRODEUR OR ROY???
HERE’S WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY…
BRODEUR HAS 3 STANLEY CUPS…1 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL…4 VEZINA TROPHYS…
ROY HAS 4 STANLEY CUPS…3 VEZINA TROPHYS AND 3 CONN SMYTHE TROPHS…
BRODEUR CAREER GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE IS AN AMAZING 2.20…
ROY’S IS 2.54…
BRODEUR HAS 100 SHUTOUTS…
ROY HAS 66…
ACCORDING TO THE NUMBERS…BRODEUR IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME…
BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR ROY…
IN THE 93 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS ROY DELIVERED…WHAT MAY BE…THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE BY ANY GOALTENDER IN HISTORY…
HE WON 10 STRAIGHT OVERTIME PLAYOFF GAMES TO LEAD THE CANADAINS TO THE STANLEY CUP…
THAT SPRING BRODEUR WAS JUST 21 YEARS OLD AND HAD PLAYED A MERE “4” GAMES IN THE NHL…
TOMORROW NIGHT…ROY WILL BE AT THE GAME ON TO HONOR HIM…
ALL BRODEUR HAS TO DO NOW…IS SUPPLY A HAPPY ENDING…
THAT…AND OF COURSE…FIND ENOUGH TICKETS FOR ALL HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY…
1 comment:
Pratt
Twenty years ago I could see your point... even 10 years. Yes it is HNIC, the 'C' standing for Canada and so on Saturday, the network should, and did default to the Leafs-Flames. Two Canadian teams... enough said. I am a Flames fan and will watch them whenever I can. No dish or PPV yet so, I go Fan960 for the play by play with Peter Maher.
Today you can dish out any game you want to...so if you want to watch Brodeur tie the record it's a button push for you and most Canadians. Or down to the bar for a cold one and some of that history.
Your options are many.
By the way... let's give some credit to the stingy, defensive minded, neutral zone trap ( boring to watch ) team in front of the man for some of those 500+ wins.
Great goalie no doubt but some of us wonder how he would have done if he ended up in Calgary and Trevor Kidd went to the Devils.
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