Comparing GOATs: Who’s Better Between Tom Brady and Martin Brodeur?
By Nick Villano
Postseason Success
This one is going to be very hard for Brodeur to touch. Brady is getting towards Michael Jordan-level of postseason dominance. He’s in his tenth Super Bowl. Brady is a ridiculous 33-11 in the postseason. He’s winning 66% of his games when the worst teams in the league are eliminated.
Brady has taken his team to the Super Bowl in almost half of the seasons he’s finished. Take out the 2008 season where he played in just one game, and Brady has 20 seasons under his belt. He was in the final game of that season 10 times. He won that game six times and could make it seven on Sunday.
Brodeur made an appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals five times in his 21 years (Blues season notwithstanding). He was knocked out in the first round seven times. Obviously, hockey playoffs and football playoffs are very hard to compare. In the NFL, teams get byes, and Tom Brady has earned a lot of those. No matter what, NHL teams have to play in the first round. Also, they have to win a seven-game series. So, momentum has a lot of impact.
Still, Brodeur had a great postseason career. He has more postseason shutouts than any goalie. He played the most postseason games because he kept his team in it. He had a .919 career playoff save percentage and a career playoff 2.02 GAA. It’s still not close. Brady by a mile.