If all goes according to plan, a sculptor named Jon Krawczyk will load a slightly larger-than-life bronze statue of a hockey player onto his truck at his home in Malibu, Calif., early in February, cover it tightly, and then haul it more than 2,800 miles to Newark.
“I don’t want to put this in anybody else’s hands,” Krawczyk said.
The statue is of Martin Brodeur, the goaltender who won three Stanley Cups and an N.H.L.-record 691 games, a record 125 by shutout, before announcing his retirement last January. All three Cups and all but three victories and one shutout came in 21 seasons with the Devils.