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
Those two guys know each other quite well. They've probably done that hundreds of times before.
We felt good coming into the third period just down by one; you're still there, you're one shot from tying the game up.
We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.
Everybody is cranked up and that's why it's so intense and so much fun to be out there.
We weren't ready to go and they were. And that was the difference.
Obviously, on the ice I feel very comfortable with him. I didn't know we'd complement each other when he got here, but after playing with him for a while I think we fit together pretty well.
Nothing comes easy in this game, but he just makes it look like it's easy and effortless. He's that good. I wish I could be like that.
Since I was 16 and he was 15, we've been apart, but now we can be together again. The family can all come down. I've been in New Jersey for a long time, a lot of memories, and to make a decision like this is difficult to do.
(There's) nothing better than playing in a rink where the fans are loud and making a bunch of noise. It makes it a more exciting, more intense game, one you like to be part of. How do we know until we get there (how things will be)? I'm optimistic that hopefully (the fans) will be able to forget about the dark days we put them through for a whole year and come back and enjoy it.
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.
There were a few things, obviously the big one was that since I was 16 and he was 15, we've been apart, but now we can be together again. The family can all come down.
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.
I just think he's playing well. With the puck, he's making some nice plays. Sometimes they're simple plays, but a lot of times they're the right thing to do and the best play.
Being in the penalty box as much as we were is tough. But we've got to find a way to stay out and to do a better job of killing penalties.