On Saturday night, the unthinkable happened. John Cena, the perrenial good guy, the man who has granted the most wishes to Make-A-Wish kids in the history of the program, made the decision to turn heel. For those who aren't familiar with wrestling jargon, "going heel" means a good guy does something dastardly for a certain motivation, and they become the bad guy. Cena famously never turned heel throughout his superstar career. However, that changed on Saturday night when he attacked the WWE Champion Cody Rhodes acting on behalf of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
The New Jersey Devils have seen this story before. Many times in their history, a player has "turned heel" on the Devils and its fanbase. However, some heart breaks stand out more than others. Which "heel turns" hurt the worst for Devils' fans?
5. Martin Brodeur, St Louis Blues legend
This one hurts to talk about. We cannot state how strange it was at the time to see Martin Brodeur wearing the color blue. He even kept his current helmet and just changed the flames and Devils logo to blue. It was such a bizarre situation.
We understand the Devils were trying to move on with Cory Schneider in net, and we can understand Brodeur not trying to end on a bad note, but none of this felt right. It felt very icky for New Jersey Devils fans.
Brodeur didn’t last long, so the experiment was ultimately a failure. He made seven starts, and it ended with a save percentage under .900. It did lead to a front office job in St. Louis, but couldn’t he have gotten there a different way?