Scott Niedermayer

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CanadaCanada  Scott Niedermayer Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2013
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2015
Scott Niedermayer
Date of birth August 31, 1973
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
number # 27
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 1st round, 3rd position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1989-1992 Kamloops Blazers
1992-2005 New Jersey Devils
2005-2010 Anaheim Ducks

Scott Niedermayer (* 31 August 1973 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current - trainer , who during his playing career from 1992 to 2010, among other 1465 games for the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League on contested the position of defender . At that time, Niedermayer was one of the most successful players ever and was accepted into the Triple Gold Club in 2004 . In 2013 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame ; he has also been a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame since 2015 .

Scott Niedermayer was considered one of the best defenders in the league, especially because of his all-round skills and his speed. He is the only player to have won the Stanley Cup, Olympic gold, the World Ice Hockey Championship , the World Cup of Hockey , the Memorial Cup, and the World Junior Championship.

His younger brother Rob Niedermayer and his cousin Jason Strudwick were also professional ice hockey players. He played with his brother in a team at the Anaheim Ducks between 2005 and 2009 .

Career

Promotion to top defender with the New Jersey Devils

Scott Niedermayer began his career in 1989 in the Western Hockey League with the Kamloops Blazers , where he was one of the outstanding defenders, scoring 190 points in his 156 games. In the 1991 NHL Entry Draft he was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the first round in third place. In the 1991/92 season he completed his first four games in the National Hockey League for the Devils, before becoming an integral part of the team in the fall of 1992.

Scott Niedermayer in the jersey of the Anaheim Ducks

In 1993 he was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team and in 1995 he celebrated the first Stanley Cup triumph with the New Jersey Devils . The 1996/97 season was to be Niedermayer's best point season with the Devils, he scored a total of 57 points and was thus the second best offensive defender in the league despite the team's more defensive game system. On the basis of his achievements, the Canadian demanded a better paid contract, but initially could not agree with the club, so he missed the start of the 1998/99 NHL season and instead stood on the ice for the Utah Grizzlies in the International Hockey League . Ultimately, Niedermayer agreed with the Devils on a multi-year contract, the details of which were not made public.

At the end of the 1999/2000 season , the defensive player got into an argument with Peter Worrell of the Florida Panthers , in which Niedermayer returned the favor with a stick blow to the head of Worrell for a previous elbow check of the same. Worrell suffered a concussion and Niedermayer was banned from the league for a total of ten games. In the play-offs, the Devils again managed to advance to the final , where they secured the second Stanley Cup in the series against the Dallas Stars .

After his contract then expired, there were again differences in the agreement with the Devils regarding a new contract, which means that Niedermayer once again missed the start of the season. Eventually it was agreed to sign a four-year contract with an average salary of $ 4 million. In the 2000/01 season , the left-handed shooter scored a total of 35 points in 57 games and took part in the 2001 All-Star Game again. In the play-offs he was involved again in an incident when he lost consciousness in a game in the quarter-final series against the Toronto Maple Leafs due to an elbow check by his opponent Tie Domi . Niedermayer then assumed that Domi had intended this action, as he had previously threatened him with a revenge action due to a previous check. Domi apologized for the incident and was subsequently banned from the league for the rest of the play-offs. Niedermayer, however, later reached the Stanley Cup final again with the Devils , but where they were subject to the Colorado Avalanche .

In 2002, Niedermayer took part in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and won the gold medal with the Canadian national team.

In the 2002/03 season , the Devils succeeded again in the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs , where Niedermayer met his brother Rob, who was at the time the opponent Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the team. The Devils decided the final for themselves, with Niedermayer having two assists in the 3-0 victory in the decisive Game 7, making a significant contribution to the third Stanley Cup victory in the history of the New Jersey Devils. In the following season , the Canadian confirmed his promotion to one of the top defenders in the league, so he got 30 minutes of ice time per game due to injuries to some teammates and was allowed to lead his team on the ice as captain . In addition, Niedermayer confirmed his good statistics and achieved more than 50 scorer points for the second time in his career, which made him the second best offensive defender in the league. Consequently, he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defender of the NHL.

Switch to the Anaheim Ducks

In the summer of 2005, Niedermayer was given the status of a free agent , which means that he received a total of 14 different offers from the league on the first day of negotiations for new contracts. The Devils also offered him a new contract that was set up for five years and a maximum salary of $ 7.8 million per season set by the Salary Cup. However, despite lower earnings and a shorter contract period, he decided on an offer from the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to fulfill the dream of a Stanley Cup victory together with his brother Rob in a team. At the Ducks, Niedermayer was immediately named the new team captain and, together with Chris Pronger , formed one of the best defensive pairs in the league in the 2006/07 season , so that both were nominated for the Norris Trophy, which ultimately went to Nicklas Lidström . In November 2006, Niedermayer played his 1000th NHL game against the Edmonton Oilers .

In the 2006/07 season he improved his personal records in goals, assists and points and was the best-in-point defender in the NHL with 69 points. In the playoffs he moved to the Stanley Cup final with the Ducks. The Ducks defeated the Ottawa Senators , and Niedermayer won the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in his career. In addition, he was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player ( MVP ) of the playoffs and nominated for the James Norris Memorial Trophy as best defender. Shortly after the last final game, Niedermayer, whose contract ran for two years, announced that he was considering retiring from active ice hockey, but could not yet make a final decision. Almost three months later on September 6, 2007, Niedermayer announced at a press conference that he had still not made a decision, that he would not participate in the Anaheim Ducks training camp and that he was not yet in the Ducks roster at the start of the season.

End of career and work as a trainer

In December 2007, Niedermayer finally announced that he would continue his career and returned to the team. After the end of the 2009/10 season, he ended his career as a player. On December 16, 2011 , the New Jersey Devils officially blocked his jersey number 27, which has not been given to any player within the team since then. The Anaheim Ducks did the same on February 17, 2019, so that the Canadian belongs to a group of just nine players whose jersey number has been banned from more than one team.

After the end of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season , he was appointed assistant coach of the Anaheim Ducks in January 2013 and worked in this role for almost two and a half years before changing his position within the organization of the Ducks at the beginning of the 2015/16 season and from now on is responsible for special development coaches . As early as 1998, Niedermayer owned shares in the Kootenay Ice franchise from the Western Hockey League and was thus co-owner of the team. He sold this in 2016.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Niedermayer (right) in a duel with Scott Hannan
Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Kamloops Blazers WHL 64 14th 55 69 64 17th 2 14th 16 35
1990 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 3 1 1 2 2
1990/91 Kamloops Blazers WHL 57 26th 56 82 52 - - - - -
1991/92 Kamloops Blazers WHL 35 7th 32 39 61 17th 9 14th 23 28
1992 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 5 2 5 7th 6th
1991/92 New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1992/93 New Jersey Devils NHL 80 11 29 40 47 5 0 3 3 2
1993/94 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 10 36 46 42 20th 2 2 4th 8th
1994/95 New Jersey Devils NHL 48 4th 15th 19th 18th 20th 4th 7th 11 10
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 79 8th 25th 33 46 - - - - -
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 5 30th 35 64 10 2 4th 6th 6th
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 14th 43 57 27 6th 0 2 2 4th
1998/99 New Jersey Devils NHL 72 11 35 46 26th 7th 1 3 4th 18th
1998/99 Utah grizzlies IHL 5 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
1999/00 New Jersey Devils NHL 71 7th 31 38 48 22nd 5 2 7th 10
2000/01 New Jersey Devils NHL 57 6th 29 35 22nd 21st 0 6th 6th 14th
2001/02 New Jersey Devils NHL 76 11 22nd 33 30th 6th 0 2 2 6th
2002/03 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 11 28 39 62 24 2 16 18th 16
2003/04 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 14th 40 54 44 5 1 0 1 6th
2004/05 New Jersey Devils NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 13 50 63 96 16 2 9 11 14th
2006/07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 79 15th 54 69 86 21st 3 8th 11 26th
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 48 8th 17th 25th 16 6th 0 2 2 4th
2008/09 Anaheim Ducks NHL 82 14th 45 59 70 13 3 7th 10 11
2009/10 Anaheim Ducks NHL 80 10 38 48 38 - - - - -
WHL overall 156 47 133 190 177 34 11 28 39 63
IHL total 5 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
NHL overall 1263 172 568 740 784 202 25th 73 98 155

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1991 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 3 0 0 0 0
1992 Canada June World Cup 6th place 7th 0 0 0 10
1996 Canada World cup 2nd place 8th 1 3 4th 6th
2002 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 1 1 2 4th
2004 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 3 2 5 12
2004 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 1 1 2 9
2010 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 7th 1 2 3 4th
Juniors overall 10 0 0 0 10
Men overall 36 7th 9 16 35

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nytimes.com To Stay Sharp, Niedermayer Signs With Minor League Team
  2. ↑ highbeam.com Scott Niedermayer signs multi-year deal with Devils ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  3. ↑ nytimes.com Niedermayer and His Stick Return
  4. ↑ nydailynews.com Devil banned for 10 games
  5. ↑ cbc.ca Arnott, Niedermayer reach contract agreement with Devils
  6. ↑ articles.latimes.com Niedermayer: Domi Called His Shot
  7. ↑ usatoday.com Domi apologizes for Niedermayer cheap shot
  8. ↑ espn.sports.go.com Noticing Niedermayer not impossible
  9. ↑ nypost.com Other Scott is the best; Niedermayer wins the first Norris Trophy
  10. ↑ sports.espn.go.com Niedermayer to join brother in Anaheim
  11. ↑ sportsnet.ca Ducks slap 'C' on veteran Niedermayer
  12. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Niedermayer Officially Announces Retirement
personal data
SURNAME Niedermayer, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta