Martin Brodeur
Every Christmas we went to my parents' cottage. My big brother would bring his buddies around, and we would play hockey games in the driveway.
When you're a kid you always played to win a Stanley Cup in the streets or on the outdoor rinks, and when you do it for real, it's a pretty cool moment, it's something that I'm always going to remember.
I think my mom is the person that holds the family together. For birthdays, for the holidays or whatever, everything has to go through my mom. She's the one reminding us about everything that's going on in the family, she's in touch with everybody while we're on our own doing our things.
You compare a goalie position to a quarterback to a pitcher. You're going to make that decision of what's gonna happen to you. They're a high-pressure position. They're fun just for that.
For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.
Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.
I've played golf everywhere in New Jersey. People are nice to me. It's great.
I'm a regular hockey guy.
In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.Collection: Inspirational
Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.Collection: Moving
Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.Collection: Goalies
No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.Collection: Hockey
You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.Collection: Defense
It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.Collection: Team
It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.Collection: Taken
Our job is to get on the road and win one game now. It's a great position to be in. We were lucky to get home ice [advantage] this year. For some reason, we pulled it off at the end and we took advantage early in the series. Now, it's up to us to do our thing on the road.Collection: Jobs
I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.Collection: Nice
The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.Collection: Hurt