NEWARK — The cheering and chanting got to Martin Brodeur on his big night. He knew it was coming because Devils fans were this way to him for two decades, but Wednesday night was different.
He called it closure coming back taking a break from his St. Louis Blues assistant GM duties this week to honor his greatness as a hockey goaltender ... a statue unveiling one night, then the main event the next that was highlighted by the raising of his No. 30 being raised to the Prudential Center rafters.
"For sure that the feeling of playing and winning I think it's going to trump anything, but this was pretty cool," Brodeur said after a 40-minute ceremony in front of a rowdy packed house that was staged before the Devils-Edmonton Oilers game.