brodeur he had hall of famers playing in front of him every night
he won back to back Vezina with all those hall of famers:
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Maybe Elias will get in one day, but we should not overblow it, his defense core by order of minutes played during those 2 seasons
Paul Martin
Johnny Oduya
Colin White
Brian Rafalsky
Mike Mottoau
Brad Lukowich
Anddy Greene
He did lead the league in wins, save percentage, saves made, shoutout and GAA behind that perfectly fine but nothing special group:
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During that time Brodeur replacment (weekes-Clemmensen) on that same squad had below .900 goaltending, not large sample size considering how much Brodeur played, but going into the directiont that they were just a good but normal team by that point, without Brodeur with just a 16-20th best starter level goaltender in net would they have been a top 10 team in the league ?, maybe, maybe not, they had the second worst offense in the nhl.
Brodeur had a lot of success post Daneyko-Scott Stevens retirement, Nierdermayer going to the Ducks and Lemaire leaving, I think many would agree enough to remove the idea that he was a product of them.