Scott Niedermayer
Scott Niedermayer
Scott Niedermayeris a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and current Special Assignment Coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He played 18 seasons and over 1,000 games in the National Hockey Leaguefor the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Ducks. Niedermayer is a four-time Stanley Cup champion and played in five NHL All-Star Games. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2003–04 as the NHL's top defenceman and the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2007 as the most valuable player of the playoffs...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth31 August 1973
CityEdmonton, Canada
The playoffs are tough. Nothing is going to be given to you. Tonight, we played like we expected that something would be given to us.
Whoever is the team that gets things going the quickest and playing together and plays the right way, is going to have success. I don't think it really matters what you did in the regular season.
We just didn't play well enough to win. They came out and battled hard the whole game. They got what they deserved and we got what we deserved.
We came out and skated and did what we wanted to do, and it paid off. When we had chances, we put it in the net. There's no recipe for that. It was just one of those nights. Some nights it doesn't work quite as smoothly as this and we don't score quite as many goals.
We have to keep our focus and play our game. They're going to make it tough, so we're going to have to pay a bit of a price.
We weren't ready to go and they were. And that was the difference.
We had our fair share of things go against us. We would like to always understand that if you continually work hard, you will have some form of reward. This was one of those things.
We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.
We should have known that (after) a long layoff, you want to keep things simple and build from there. It took us awhile to figure that out.
We're playing some good teams and the games are close, but no wins. It's not fun that's for sure. This is a good test, a good challenge.
Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.
I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.
We need a better penalty kill. They just put it on the net and they kind of knew where the loose puck was going to be, we didn't.
We played well tonight, but we had to. We had no choice. Now all we've got is another chance to go back out there and play hard again.