Joe Nieuwendyk
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"Joseph Nieuwendyk" is a Canada/Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) player. He was a second round selection of the Calgary Flames, 27th overall, at the 1985 NHL Entry Draft and played 20 seasons for the Flames, Stars, New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers. He is one of only ten players in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with three different teams, winning titles with Calgary in 1989, Dallas in 1999 and New Jersey in 2003. A two-time Olympics/Olympian, Nieuwendyk won a gold medal with Canada men's national ice hockey team/Team Canada at the Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics/2002 winter games. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011 and his uniform number 25 was List of NHL retired numbers/honoured by the Flames in 2014. Joe Nieuwendyk was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.

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I had an angle to shoot. If you see the replay I think you'll see that Gary [Roberts] did a great job of screening Theodore out. He didn't see it that well. It was a good screen and I was fortunate to get it inside.

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That line is getting the job done for us. It's what you have to have from your top line if you're going to win hockey games.

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We haven't learned enough how to put teams away. We don't do a good enough job when we've got a team down and need to step on the gas a little bit to close it out.

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It's what you have to have from your top line — getting the puck in deep and getting on top of it. They support each other well and they're having success.

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We don't do a good job when we have a team down. We have to step on the gas and close them out.

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I don't think it was a stellar game by any means, but we have to win these games no matter how we do it. Some of it may be a little rust from not playing since Sunday. ... It was a little tough to get it going at times. But we needed the win, we got the win and we'll come out more energetic Saturday night.

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Any time you get a goal early it really lifts the team, especially on the road. Tonight was a good start for us.

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Play was kind of going the other way, Lukas maintained position on the blue line and kept it in. I had a little time to get a shot away and fortunately it found the net.

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We're battling now. Before we were getting a little nervous as the game went on when it was tight. Now we're playing with a lot more poise with the puck. It's a sign our confidence is getting better.

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