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| 26 February 2009
Martin Brodeur IS BACK!!!!
At long last.....its been three months and 25 days since we last saw Martin Brodeur on the ice. There was the elbow injury....the one that we feared would be bad and sure enough it was. We all heard the prognosis....we heard the naysayers. Brodeur out 3-4 months would kill this team...yada yada yada. So there is no way Martin Brodeur expected to come back and be in the thick of a division race or did he?
That is the thing most do not understand about Brodeur. He knew this team would be close when so many of us (including me) thought it looked bleak. I kept thinking if we could be just at or a few games over .500 while he was gone...we'd be in great shape. Fifteen over .500 was quite the bonus and now with the Atlantic Division and maybe a #2 seed even on the line.....Brodeur has to play sharp from the get-go...similar to another guy that made a long anticipated return in golf. His name....Tiger Woods.
The video is from practice by the way about a week ago. I have seen warm-ups of Brodeur via YouTube. Though he appears a bit rusty in these practices...the determination is still there. We all know he is 8 wins from breaking Patrick Roy's wins record and he is so close to so many other records out there. This is not about that folks! This is about Martin Brodeur, the cornerstone of the New Jersey Devils, coming back at long last.
I have been lucky to have met Martin Brodeur many times in my days. The 95 Stanley Cup Locker Room from where he was the life of the party like a frat boy....to now where he still displays that boyish charm. Even approaching 37....Brodeur is an adult that looks and feels much younger than that little number everyone loves to point to.
As Tom Gulitti has mentioned...this is new ground for Brodeur. I think all it really will take is that first shot or that first little scrum in front of him and he will be able to say to himself "I am back". I do like what Brodeur did say here:
It really is that simple for Martin Brodeur. For fans, it is not. It is a day of immense joy. This would be just about the equivalent if Scotty Stevens had been able to come back and play. Its around five hours till gametime and this almost "goosebump" like feeling is something I haven't felt in a long, long time. That feeling will only get amped up as gametime approaches.
Yes I have my foam alarm clock, my little mini Martin Brodeur mask (autographed), my Devils jersey all ready to wear, and all those little subtle special things. This has been a long time coming for Devils fans. Now of course, we appreciate all that Scott Clemmensen and Kevin Weekes did for this team the last almost 4 months or so. We as fans would be morons not to be thankful and we also know it is a business in the NHL. That is why Clemmensen was sent down yesterday to Lowell to make room for Brodeur because of waiver issues.
That does not diminish what today means for every Devils fan, big or small. It is a chance to see Martin Brodeur in net. How often can you say one of the greatest at any position played for your team and more importantly, you got to see their whole career before your eyes? That is the most precious gift...just the joy of playing. Tonight really is all about that joy....the feeling that at long last the New Jersey Devils are "whole". For this night, we can at long last hear those familiar words....."And now your starting goalie for the NJ Devils....#30.....MARTIN BRODEUR!" That in itself brings a happy tear to my eye.
That is the thing most do not understand about Brodeur. He knew this team would be close when so many of us (including me) thought it looked bleak. I kept thinking if we could be just at or a few games over .500 while he was gone...we'd be in great shape. Fifteen over .500 was quite the bonus and now with the Atlantic Division and maybe a #2 seed even on the line.....Brodeur has to play sharp from the get-go...similar to another guy that made a long anticipated return in golf. His name....Tiger Woods.
The video is from practice by the way about a week ago. I have seen warm-ups of Brodeur via YouTube. Though he appears a bit rusty in these practices...the determination is still there. We all know he is 8 wins from breaking Patrick Roy's wins record and he is so close to so many other records out there. This is not about that folks! This is about Martin Brodeur, the cornerstone of the New Jersey Devils, coming back at long last.
I have been lucky to have met Martin Brodeur many times in my days. The 95 Stanley Cup Locker Room from where he was the life of the party like a frat boy....to now where he still displays that boyish charm. Even approaching 37....Brodeur is an adult that looks and feels much younger than that little number everyone loves to point to.
As Tom Gulitti has mentioned...this is new ground for Brodeur. I think all it really will take is that first shot or that first little scrum in front of him and he will be able to say to himself "I am back". I do like what Brodeur did say here:
"I've tried to make this just another day," he said this morning at Prudential Center. "That's the bottom line. I can't get overwhelmed by the situation. I'm happy to be back. I know it's going to be a different feeling. I feel it now just being at the rink, knowing that I'm going to play tonight. I haven't got that feeling in a while. But after today it's going to be old news. So, I'm going to take it in and, hopefully, I get myself as ready as I can and do well tonight." Brodeur said his routine today will be, "the exact thing I did before on the day I got hurt. I've been doing the same thing. There's nothing I'm going to do different than what I've been doing the prior 14, 15 years."
It really is that simple for Martin Brodeur. For fans, it is not. It is a day of immense joy. This would be just about the equivalent if Scotty Stevens had been able to come back and play. Its around five hours till gametime and this almost "goosebump" like feeling is something I haven't felt in a long, long time. That feeling will only get amped up as gametime approaches.
Yes I have my foam alarm clock, my little mini Martin Brodeur mask (autographed), my Devils jersey all ready to wear, and all those little subtle special things. This has been a long time coming for Devils fans. Now of course, we appreciate all that Scott Clemmensen and Kevin Weekes did for this team the last almost 4 months or so. We as fans would be morons not to be thankful and we also know it is a business in the NHL. That is why Clemmensen was sent down yesterday to Lowell to make room for Brodeur because of waiver issues.
That does not diminish what today means for every Devils fan, big or small. It is a chance to see Martin Brodeur in net. How often can you say one of the greatest at any position played for your team and more importantly, you got to see their whole career before your eyes? That is the most precious gift...just the joy of playing. Tonight really is all about that joy....the feeling that at long last the New Jersey Devils are "whole". For this night, we can at long last hear those familiar words....."And now your starting goalie for the NJ Devils....#30.....MARTIN BRODEUR!" That in itself brings a happy tear to my eye.
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