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With a 2-1 shootout win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night, Martin Brodeur tied Bernie Parent's 23-year-old record single season wins record with 47.It's somewhat fitting that Parent's record was tied with a shootout win because that's what all the fuss (whatever fuss there is) is about -- shootout wins. You see, back in Bernie Parent's day, when games were still tied at the end of a five-minute overtime period, they just ended; no skills competitions to decide a victor, just one big sister-kissing tie for each team and all the fans. Unimaginable, I know.
Nowadays, of course, ties are for baseball and every overtime hockey game has a winner and a bigger winner. And the biggest winners with this whole set-up are the goalies, who get an extra chance to win a game where their generational predecessors would have been saddled with a draw.
Which brings us to Martin Brodeur tying Bernie Parent's single season wins record. Brodeur has won a League-high 10 of those games in shootouts. Bernie Parent won, well, none of his games in shootouts, but did tie a dozen games that year -- games that would have gone to the shootout had they existed. It's a safe bet that Parent, that year's Vezina Trophy winner as the League's best goalie, would have won enough of those shootouts that we wouldn't even be talking about Brodeur closing in on his record right now, much less tying or breaking it.
So the question is, if Brodeur breaks Parent's record with a win in one of New Jersey's two remaining games, is the record legitimate or does it deserve the dreaded asterisk?
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