Brodeur: "I'll have the power next year"
/Surefire Hall of Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur hasn't shied away from the subject of having to share the New Jersey Devils crease with Cory Schneider this season.
Thursday was no exception.
Brodeur, who will be an unrestricted free agent this summer and has already said he'll test the market, had a number of pointed comments.
"It's hard. There is no one to blame," Brodeur said, via The Star-Ledger. "There are people that are made for that (primarily being a backup) and there are other people that are not.
"It's one thing when you get into a situation and they tell you exactly what is going to happen. I'm not saying I was promised anything but I definitely was not promised that, to sit back whenever games counted throughout the year."
On the topic of next season:
"The situation I'm going to get myself in is something I'm going to be okay with. So if you see me here next year, it's because I'm okay to be sharing the net or doing whatever I'm told," Brodeur said. "But I'm not going to go through what I've done, thinking you're still No. 1 and the next thing you know (you're sitting).
"I'll have the power next year. This year I didn't have it."
Source: Rich Chere, Star-Ledger
Brodeur also said of the Devils, via Fire & Ice, that, “I don’t expect them to come running after me,” and, "Regardless of if I stay or leave, the Devils are in unbelievable hands with Schneids.”
Source: Tom Gulitti, NorthJersey.com
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