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 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.
Great or brutal. If we want to get back to winning games, the PK has to do a better job.
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.
Maybe we were a bit lucky, we were able to turn the game around, you're not always going to be able to do that.
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.
Those two guys know each other quite well. They've probably done that hundreds of times before.
It was nice to finally win a game like that. It seems we've been on the short end of a lot of games like that.
It's going to take our best to give ourselves a chance in the series. We just have to be focused on what we need to do.
It will be a big emotional challenge, for sure.
It'll be interesting to see how it is (today). It's tight already.
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.