Through the 1980-81 season, the Vezina was awarded to the goaltender(s) who played a minimum of 25 games for the team allowing the fewest goals during the regular season. 28, 1925, and died of tuberculosis a few months later. So there he was – the legend, the leader – after all of his teammates had vacated the dressing room, answering questions about a 4-0 beating that had no good answers.Leo Dandurand, Louis Letourneau, and Joe Cattarinich, former owners of the Montreal Canadiens, presented the trophy to the League in 1926-27 in memory of Canadiens goaltender Georges Vezina, who collapsed during an NHL game Nov. Still, he respects the journey enough to talk about it, in good times and bad. 4 four isn't likely, at least not this year. It's probably the most difficult thing in any sport." I really care about this organization, this team and what we're going to try to achieve here. I'm not going to be here and answer two questions and walk out the media room, that doesn't mean that I don't care. I think our attitude needs to be really positive. I feel fortunate, and frustration at this point is something that's going to take away from what you need to do. He didn't seem bothered or upset by his team's predicament. (Which, surely, they will.)Īs the interview wound down, I asked Brodeur about his demeanor. Yeah, he's still playing, yeah, he's got his team in the Stanley Cup Final, and yeah, he wants to come back next season if the Devils will have him. This is a guy who's eliciting he's still playing? wonderment from people who are tuning into the NHL playoffs for the first time in a decade. It's unfortunate but everybody's trying really hard and I'm really proud of these guys and we're not quitting." That's a tough way going about games because you need goals to win. "I think we've played some really good hockey, we just can't find a way to score goals. "They're trying really hard," he said of teammates' inability to provide him much in the way of offensive support. Brodeur shot a quick scowl, then apologized for doing so, sounding like every bit the gentleman he appeared to be in that black suit and powder-blue tie. He'd just played a lousy game (by his standards), his team is on the brink of elimination, his career is winding down which means this is likely his last best shot at a Stanley Cup, yet he stood on that six-inch podium handling five minutes of questions in English, then several more in French, then some more in English.Īt one point a microphone produced a screeching feedback sound. You know, we're just facing a team that's doing everything right right now and that's hard." That's the attitude we've been having all playoff long, all season long.
"We're gonna work really, really hard and we'll see where that brings us. "We're looking at this as one game at a time, like everybody will probably tell you the last 20 years or so, and we'll go from there." "Every team that's down three-nothing will pull out the same speech. It's a silly question not because the Devils can't (even if it is unlikely), but because what else is he supposed to say? So out of the closed dressing room came their eldest statesman, the 40-year-old Brodeur – the only player in either dressing room who has seen a razor in the last month – to answer a question that's really just silly: Can your team come back from a 3-0 hole? After being shut out in Game 3, the Devils have now scored a grand total of two goals in 201 minutes of ice time.
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The first two losses in the series weren't because of their netminder, who gave up a total of two goals in regulation and two more in overtime, extra periods that wouldn't have been necessary had Mark Fayne not missed an open net in Game 1 or Ilya Kovalchuk not clanked one off the crossbar in Game 2. Three games into the Stanley Cup Final and the Devils have yet to lead for even a single second.
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