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
We weren't ready to go and they were. And that was the difference.
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 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'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 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.
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.
I was trying to get it up in the corner. How it traveled into the net, I can't tell you.
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.
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 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, skated and did what we wanted to do. It paid off. We needed to play well here. We came up short the previous two times.
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.