Martin Brodeur is no Patrick Roy
I could start and end my Patrick Roy/Martin Brodeur comparison with the sentence “Roy never lost to Brian Boucher in five games,” but I’ll expand it a tad.
Roy was 151-94 (.616 winning percentage) in the postseason compared to Brodeur’s career playoff record of 99-82 (.546). In 15 years as a playoff starter, Marty has now failed to get out of the first round seven times – and three years straight. In 17 years in the playoffs, Roy’s teams only failed to make it out of the first round twice. One of those years was 1994 when Roy missed a game to have his appendix removed. He returned three nights later to stop 50 shots in an overtime win over the Bruins.
Roy also has one more Cup — four in total — than Brodeur and three Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP. Marty has zero.
Don’t get me wrong. Brodeur is one of the best ever, but no matter how many 40-plus win seasons he piles up, he’s not the best. Not even close.
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