pmills1210's Full Review: Score New Jersey Devils Martin Brodeur 90-91 Rooki...
He has spent his entire NHL career with one organization. After spending two years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, he had a brief stint with the big team. After one more season in the minors, he earned a spot on the big team in the 1993-94 campaign. At the end of his first full season, he would win the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most outstanding rookie. The following season, he would be a part of his team's first Stanley Cup champion. They would follow that title with championships in the 1999-2000 and 2002-03 seasons. He has won the Vezina Trophy and the Jennings Trophy four times apiece, and has been a ten-time NHL All-Star. In the 2008-09 season, New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur set the record for wins by a goalie, and would end that season with 557 career victories in the net.
In 1990, after his first season of junior hockey, Brodeur, a Montreal native, was a first round pick of the Devils (20th overall). In the 1990-91 season, Score, in their debut in the hockey card market, included Brodeur and fifteen other players selected in that draft, including name players such as Jaromir Jagr and Eric Lindros, who was once believed to be the next great player in the NHL. It is Brodeur, however, who has had the greatest run of outstanding NHL play from among the young players included in that set. The Brodeur rookie card is the key card from this set. It is card #439 in the 440-card set. Its value, according to the July 2009 issue of "Beckett Sports Card Monthly," is $15.
The card is very simple, but very handsome. He is shown wearing a Devils cap and a jersey (though not his familiar #30) over a shirt and tie. The design on the front resembles a hockey rink, complete with its red and blue lines. The top half of the back of the card includes the draft pick logo Score used on the front, as well as the Devils logo and vital stats about the goalie. The bottom half heralds his accomplishments at St. Hyacinthe in the QMJHL. I wish Score had made the text a little bigger and the logos a little smaller, as the card would be easier to read. The card still tells the tale of early greatness that would find a way to translate to the NHL.
Martin Brodeur has become well known for his quick reflexes and puck handling abilities over the course of fifteen NHL seasons (The league did not play in the 2004-05 season because of a player lockout). He is one of the few goalies who has ever scored a goal in league history. In regular season contests, Brodeur ranks second only to the late Terry Sawchuk in shutouts (103-101). At age 37, Brodeur could easily surpass Sawchuk before he hangs up his mask and pads for the last time. Whenever his achievements on the ice are finished, Martin Brodeur will be remembered as he is known now - as one of the greats of the sport of hockey.
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