 In the 2001 – 02 season , Brodeur finished among the league leaders in wins and GAA . Brodeur continued to lead the league in victories and remained a Vezina and MVP candidate . The next season , in 2002 – 03 , Brodeur finally achieved what had been eluding him his whole career : the Vezina Trophy . He also won the Jennings Trophy again , was a Hart Memorial Trophy finalist for the league 's Most Valuable Player , and was named a 1st Team All @-@ Star and started in the All @-@ Star Game . With one of the most impressive playoff performances of his career , Brodeur guided the Devils to their third Stanley Cup victory after dramatic seven @-@ game series wins against the top @-@ seeded Ottawa Senators and the surprising 7th @-@ seeded Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . He posted 3 shutouts against Anaheim and had a playoff total of 7 overall , breaking Dominik Hašek 's NHL record of 6 ( Hašek had recorded his 6 shutouts for Detroit the previous year ) . Despite this , the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP was awarded to Anaheim goaltender Jean @-@ Sébastien Giguère , who became the first player not on the championship team to be named playoff MVP since Ron Hextall of Philadelphia in 1987 . Some hockey writers speculated a New Jersey player did not win because there were multiple candidates , resulting in a split vote among the sportswriters who selected the winner . In the 2003 – 04 season , Brodeur won his second consecutive Vezina Trophy and Jennings trophy . He was also a first Team All @-@ Star , a starter in the NHL All @-@ Star Game , and a finalist for the Hart Trophy again . The Devils lost the Atlantic Division title by 1 point to the Philadelphia Flyers , who thus obtained the third seed and home ice advantage against the sixth @-@ seeded Devils in the first round of the playoffs . This would be too much for Brodeur and the Devils to overcome , as the Flyers went on to defeat them in five games . 
