from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Watching Martin Brodeur yield a boatload of soft goals through his first four games has been like watching Derek Jeter hit a succession of soft ground balls through the first half of the 2011 season.

It has been tough on the eyes, difficult to absorb and more difficult to process, because the mind’s eye freezes Brodeur in time as it did with Jeter.

Too old? Too slow? Professionally mortal?

Can’t be.

But maybe so.

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