With Martin Brodeur out for 3-4 months, this will mark the first year in a decade where he does not place 70+ games, and one of the few years in recent memory where he will not compete (or be a lock) for the Vezina Trophy.
With that in mind, it's time for the best of the rest to step up and take advantage of the small blessing fate has bestowed upon them. Who is going to seize the moment?
After a slow start, Roberto Luongo now has 3 shutouts at the team's 13-game mark. That puts him on pace to break Tony Esposito's modern record of 15 in a season.
Don't expect him to keep up that phenomenal pace of goose eggs, but it's the sort of statistic that could allow him to do what everyone has been waiting for and scribble his name on what has essentially, for the last decade, been Martin Brodeur's trophy.
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