so who's better?

I have to admit I do not follow hockey until the playoffs. I watch the highlights of the sick hits and impressive goals and saves. This season I have seen some crazy stuff in hockey and some gross stuff too. The player who hit his own teammate in the helmet after allowing a goal tops the list. Speaking of goal play today I have a rhetorical question to ask. Who is better Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek or Martin Brodeur? Conventional wisdom says it is Roy. He took two teams to the Stanley Cup and was great as a young layer and great as an elder statesman. My lasting memory of Roy in Montreal is the game when he allowed 9 goals and the coach did not take him out because he was allegedly showing up Roy. He was a great player and 4 Stanley Cups to his credit and countless records gives him the credibility to be called the greatest goalie of all times. He was known for his butterfly style in the net and definitely influenced the goalies that came after him. I think his days in Colorado were overshadowed because he was on an all-star team and he was not the savior that he was in Montreal. Also I think that he tried to be involved in the game more than any goalie I have ever seen. I will explain that in comparing him to the others. I could list his records but they seem to daily get broken by Brodeur.
Martin Brodeur in my opinion is the best long tenured player in the history of all sports. He is the New Jersey Devils. No player in any sport represents his team any better than he. Peyton Manning comes close but I don't think he will have 16 years with the Colts that Brodeur has had with the Devils. Every year it seems that the Devils are playing in the eastern conference title game or in the Stanley Cup. He has faced better competition the Roy has. The Avalanche and Red Wings were the only real teams in the west during Roy's career out west. Dallas, San Jose, Calgary, Chicago did not have the consistency that the teams in the East had. Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, every year put out clubs that have what it takes to win a cup. For Brodeur to do what he has done going up against, Lindross, Lemiuex, Messier and Gretzky, and now Ovechkin, and Crosby is pretty sick. He will own every record in goal tending before he is done. He is the most unknown superstar in all of sports. Unlike Roy, Brodeur just did his job. He had no need to get in fights or take risks that were not necessary. Yes Team Canada played Roy over him in the Olympics, but I have read where a lot of players wanted Brodeur to play over Roy. He is a living legend and will never be appreciated for what he has meant to hockey. If he wins one more cup, I think that he will get the nod over Roy.
Then there is Hasek. If he does not get injured or played in a better market, he would be the guy. He only has one ring I think but he has done things that no other goalie has. He has been a league M.V.P. back to back seasons I believe and he is the European goal tender to win the Stanley cup. He is the European goalie to do a lot of things in hockey. His feat in the Olympics is legendary. He simply just does not allow goals. If he had the support cast that the Devils had or what he had in Detroit later in his career, this discussion would be closed. The Dallas and Buffalo series was epic because of Hasek's brilliance. His career does not compare to Brodeur because the Devils system was really tough to beat. Buffalo had decent defenders usually left it up to Hask to clean up their messes. He is treated with such high regard in his Czech Nation. His nickname says all you need to know about how great a player he was. If he had more cups he would win hands down but only one title hurts him in the argument.
In the end, I am taking Brodeur because he is the best player no one outside of hockey has ever heard. Now that he is an American citizen, I wonder if he will player for us in the Olympics or will he finally lead Canada to reach the glory that they feel they should have every time they lace 'em up.