Brodeur's Shut Out: Add It To The Resume

Last night, New Jersey Devil's goalie Martin Brodeur chased down history again. Brodeur tied the National Hockey League record for shutouts by blanking the Buffalo Sabres and notching his 103rd career shutout. Brodeur is tied with legendary goalie Sawchuk, who played in the league from 1949 to 1970. As you can see, this record has been untouched for quite sometime.

Martin Brodeur has racked up a number of records in his career thus far. His most prominent record being the one that makes him the winningest goalie in the history of the NHL. His wins record continues to grow and with his latest shutout Brodeur is up to 575 career wins.

In my opinion, this is the only record that can overshadow Brodeur's shutout record, which the way things are going it seems its only a matter of time until he passes Sawchuk to take full possession of the record.

"It's pretty amazing ... its hard enough to get 100 wins in this league let alone 100 shutouts."

Devils captain Jaime Langenbrunner told the media.

He is right, it is amazing. Martin Brodeur is the only active player within the top 22 players of the shutouts record list. The only other active player close to him is Detroit Redwing's goalie Chris Osgood who is placed at 23rd on the list with 50 career shutouts.

Martin Brodeur will soon enough pass Terry Sawchuk for the out right lead. Meanwhile, he is once again on the verge of breaking yet another NHL record. This time it is for most games played by a goalie. He is only four games away from tying Hall of Fame goalie Patrick Roy, who has 1,029.

With Brodeur's resume, it is very hard for one to argue against him being the greatest goalie to ever play the game. Besides all of his records, Brodeur's resume includes 10 All Star selections, three Stanley Cups, and an Olympic Gold Medal; among many other accomplishments.

Martin Brodeur is a guaranteed Hall of Fame hockey player and in my eyes he is guaranteed the title as "Best Goalie Ever."

Get 'em Marty.