The franchise goalie, the franchise icon, was being displaced. Everyone could see that. The trade deadline was approaching and for the first time, serious talk circulated about asking him to waive his no-trade clause.
“I would have waived it if I was asked,” Martin Brodeur told The Post Monday morning, for the first time revealing his thoughts leading into that 2014 deadline. “But Lou [Lamoriello] never asked me.
“For the first time, I was in the position of not playing much. I was fighting to get playing time. If there was a team that wanted me that I thought I could help win, I’d have gone.