There's been an awful lot going on this week in the NHL the most notable story of course was Martin Brodeur's record breaking game on Tuesday night (St.Patricks Day about which I'll be ranting about in the next few days!) at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey . The Devils came out with a 3-2 win against the Chicago Blackhawks (incidently this is the most common scoreline in all of his games with 99 of the wins being 3-2) to give the Canadian born netminder his 552nd NHL victory to make him the winningest goalie of all time as he passed the record of 551 wins set by Patrick Roy. The game last night against Minnesota gave Brodeur 553 wins and also his 101st shutout which is important as he now moves closer to passing the record for most shutouts which was set by Terry Sawchuk at 103.
Brodeur has also been in the news after being ordered to pay $500k year in alimony to his ex wife, Melanie DuBois. Something like this shouldn't get in the way of the hockey though so I'll leave it at that (more can be read here if you must though - http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/story/11523547)
Another record fell this week in New Jersey in the form of the franchise points scoring record previously held by John MacLlean (701 points) was broken by Patrik Elias who assisted Brian Gionta's shorthanded game winning tally in the second period to get his 702nd NHL point.
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