"You always have to find out if former players want to work," Lamoriello said. "They're used to playing, that's the bottom line. I know Marty doesn't want to coach. I don't know if Marty wants to work.

"It's the individual. You see some that have gone into it and have drifted away, and it wasn't that the organization did that, it was just what they wanted to put in to have the success. It's like great players sometimes don't make good coaches.

"It's not because they don't know. It's that they can't get down to the majority of players because they think they should know it already. It's the same thing with what you've accomplished. There's a price you pay. It's the individual. It's one they get into and feel, 'This is not for me. Golf is more for me. Parties are more for me.' That's more of the majority that the minority, by the way."

Continued, and Politi believes that Brodeur might end up as the Devils' assistant GM.