Brodeur retires. Will serve as Blues Asst. G.M.

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Re: Brodeur retires. Will serve as Blues Asst. G.M.

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WaukeeBlues wrote:
Kerfuffle wrote:
dmiles2186 wrote:
Kerfuffle wrote:Guys he played only 7 games for the Blues. Let's not pretend he's built a legacy in St. Louis. He filled a role until Elliot returned.
I understand this. But it's just like Gretzky coming through here. Even though it was brief, you still had one of the G.O.A.T. suit up in your team's jersey. That's pretty cool.
I hear what you're saying - wWe had Peter Bondra when he joined us with like 498 goals and played 37 games, got his 500 goals in a Blackhawk sweater. A lot of fans thought it was a big deal in Chicago at the time but I could care less I recall. He didn't play his career with us and was just doing mop up duty at the time to hit a personal milestone. 8 years later no one in Chicago even remembers him.
Fairly confident that when Bondra was on the Hawks there were about 56 people in Chicago who noticed...
Yeah, I take 'Hawks fans' pronouncements about how they were as fans before their team got good with a boulder of salt. The kind of success they've had the last several years clouds memories...

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Re: Brodeur retires. Will serve as Blues Asst. G.M.

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ecbm wrote:
WaukeeBlues wrote:
Kerfuffle wrote:
dmiles2186 wrote:
Kerfuffle wrote:Guys he played only 7 games for the Blues. Let's not pretend he's built a legacy in St. Louis. He filled a role until Elliot returned.
I understand this. But it's just like Gretzky coming through here. Even though it was brief, you still had one of the G.O.A.T. suit up in your team's jersey. That's pretty cool.
I hear what you're saying - wWe had Peter Bondra when he joined us with like 498 goals and played 37 games, got his 500 goals in a Blackhawk sweater. A lot of fans thought it was a big deal in Chicago at the time but I could care less I recall. He didn't play his career with us and was just doing mop up duty at the time to hit a personal milestone. 8 years later no one in Chicago even remembers him.
Fairly confident that when Bondra was on the Hawks there were about 56 people in Chicago who noticed...
Yeah, I take 'Hawks fans' pronouncements about how they were as fans before their team got good with a boulder of salt. The kind of success they've had the last several years clouds memories...
To be fair...you can't really compare Bondra to Brodeur.
Brodeur is arguably (or not so arguably) the best goalie of all time. Bondra, while a great player, isn't even a hall of famer.

I don't think anyone is under any delusions that he has any kind of legacy in St. Louis. Why would they be? I think most folks just think it's pretty damn cool that we got to see him play a handful of games in a Blues jersey to end his career. And as far as his play was concerned, he wasn't bad...he even pitched a shutout in his last game. He played a little better than I expected he would...which makes it all the better.
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