Martin Brodeer is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive. He played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League, 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils. He won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships in 17 postseason campaigns. He also won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games. He announced his retirement in the middle of the 2014–15 season after a brief stint with the St. Louis Blues, having played in seven games with the team.
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Martin Brodeur (born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive. He played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League, 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils. He won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships in 17 postseason campaigns. He also won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals in other international competitions. He is known for his puck handling, his positional play, and his reflexes, especially with his glove hand. He announced his retirement in the middle of the 2014–15 season after a brief stint with the St. Louis Blues, having played in seven games with the team. In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the \”100 Greatest NHL Players\”, and the following year he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was known for a hybrid style of goaltending by standing up more than typical butterfly style goalies, though he adapted to more modern techniques at the latter stage of his career. His prowess at puck handling was so well known that it led in part to the NHL changing its rules regarding where goalies were allowed to handle the puck outside of the goal crease, adding what is known as “The Brodeor Rule” Brodeer is the current executive vice president of business development for the Devils. His father Denis played in the 1956 Olympics for Team Canada and won a bronze medal.
His mother Mireille was a longtime photographer for the Montreal Canadiens and attended all Montreal games and practices for more than 20 years. His younger brother Claude is a former NHL player who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers. He has a daughter, Charlotte, and a son, Martin Jr., who plays for the Anaheim Ducks. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children, Charlotte and Martin Jr. The couple have three children, a son and a daughter-in-law, and two step-children. The family lives in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, and has three children of Montreal and Montreal, Canada. He used to play hockey as a forward for the Saint-Hyacinthe Laser in the Quebec Major Junior League. In the 1989–90 season, he made it to the QMJHL Second All-Star Team in 1991–92. He spent the most of his NHL time with Saint-hyacintle in the NHL, but was called up to NHL on an emergency basis in 1993–94. He made his NHL debut against the Boston Bruins, 4–2, and played in one playoff game that season. He later won at least 30 games in twelve straight seasons between 1995–96 and 2007–08 and is the only goalie in NHL history with eight 40-win seasons. He is one of only 12 NHL goaltenders to score a goal in the regular season and only the second to do so in the playoffs; his three goals are themost of any NHL goaltender.
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