DeBoer: Brodeur is 'coach in a goaltender's body'

New Jersey Devils coach Pete DeBoer, via Fire & Ice, believes what defines goaltender Martin Brodeur is “Just excellence. Decades of excellence.

“That’s such rarefied air that there’s only a handful of people in the history of the game that have breathed it,” he said. “So, it’s amazing.”

DeBoer continued.

“I think, obviously, he’s gifted physically that he can still get out and get the job done physically at the age he’s at at a position where it’s very physically tolling. But I think what separates him is the mental part of the game. He’s really a coach in a goaltender’s body. He thinks the game, he sees the game, his competitiveness, his ability to raise his level of play at key times, all those things are what separates him.”

Source: Tom Gulitti, NorthJersey.com