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
I was trying to get it up in the corner. How it traveled into the net, I can't tell you.
I knew their goalie was caught way out of the net, and I knew we'd have guys there. I was just trying to get it out front and I got a little bit of luck there.
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.
That doesn't mean much now. We've got a tough opponent in the playoffs and we want to go out there and concentrate on beating those guys and perform as well as we can. 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 price in front of the net ù get into the corners and work hard.
It feels fine. I'm just happy to get back on the ice. We were off in the first period. To give up a two-goal lead like that, it's hard to come back.
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.
When the game's going to be a lot of special teams, you have to be strong on both of them. Tonight, we scored on our player play, but we allowed them (to score). It's a balance. You have to be good on both of them.
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 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.
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 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.
If this will put a smile for a minute that will be good. That's tough work they're doing, long days. So we owe them a lot of thanks for the work that they do.
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.