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When we see all-time greats hold on to their careers too long, it becomes sad. When Joe Montana played with the Kansas City Chiefs, something didn’t feel right. Seeing Michael Jordan play with the Washington Wizards and not make the playoffs made us want to forget he ever came back. Just the other day, a 41-year-old Ichiro Suzuki signed a one-year deal with the Miami Marlins.
Martin Brodeur‘s stint with the St. Louis Blues will go down in that same breath. He played seven games with the team and posted a save percentage under .900. He’s allowed 2.87 goals per game despite having one of the best defenses playing in front of him. He did add a shutout to his record, but that seemed to be his only good game.
Brodeur has taken a leave of absence. Brian Elliot has come back from his injury, and he has been great. The Blues would not send down Jake Allen in order to play a 42 year old who is not part of the future. Either the team would carry three goalies, or Brodeur would be the odd man out.
If this is how it ends, then Brodeur will still likely go down as the best goalie of all time. It is debatable, but he has all of the awards to back him up. All this stint with the Blues has done is hurt his legacy with the New Jersey Devils. Instead of being the first Hall of Famer in New Jersey to spend his entire career there, now he has this seven-game blip on his career that keeps from that stat.
The end game to this is just going to be possibly a one-day contract with the Devils. He will get the biggest ceremony of any player in the team’s history. He will watch the No. 30 get raised to the rafters, and every Devils fan will shed a tear. It’s just too bad that they couldn’t do the ceremony during Game 1 of this season.
Nick Villano is the New Jersey Devils writer for Rant Sports. He also adds to the site’s NBA, MLB and NFL content. You can follow him on Twitter or add him to your Google circle.
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