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
It'll be interesting to see how it is (today). It's tight already.
I'm surprised. I thought it would be just us out there ... but I underestimated Canadians a bit, I guess.
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.
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 will be a big emotional challenge, for sure.
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.
Those two guys know each other quite well. They've probably done that hundreds of times before.
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.
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.
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.