Is this a criticism of Brodeur? I mean, it's only 9 games.
No, my stance is Brodeur or Beezer had little to do with it.
Imagine with me for a second:
You have the puck and youre making millions of dollars with the responsibility within your job that says you have to try to get that puck to the other team's net.
Now you look up and not only are you dealing with one of their defensive robot forwards taking care of business, you're looking at not only having to skate toward
this guy
or this guy
.
but you're also looking at them skating at you. They surrounded and punished. I had the pleasure of having my rivals on local television and saw most games Brodeur played. I'd cheer for whoever was playing them, and then the many games we couldn't get near Brodeur who just took the shutout and game star LOL Meanwhile Richter on the other end was dealing with whatever the hell I could call what I saw when Leetch wasn't on the ice....