Scott Niedermayer
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"Scott Niedermayer"

As a junior hockey/junior, Niedermayer was a member of a Kamloops Blazers team that won two Ed Chynoweth Cup/Western Hockey League championships and was voted the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy/most valuable player of the 1992 Memorial Cup/1992 Memorial Cup, leading the Blazers to the Canadian Hockey League championship. A third overall selection at the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by New Jersey, Niedermayer played the majority of his professional career with the Devils before moving to Anaheim in 2005.

Internationally, Niedermayer played with Canada men's national ice hockey team/Team Canada on several occasions. He is a member of the Triple Gold Club, signifying he has won the Stanley Cup, the Ice Hockey World Championships/World Championship and an Ice hockey at the Olympic Games/Olympic gold medal (Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics/2002, Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics/2010). Niedermayer also played on gold medal-winning squads at the 1991 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships/1991 World Junior Championship and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, making him the only player in history to win every major North American and international championship available to a Canadian player.

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If this will put a smile for a minute that will be good. That's tough work they're doing, long days. So we owe them a lot of thanks for the work that they do.

(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.

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.

We weren't ready to go and they were. And that was the difference.

We need to do a better job of killing penalties and when we get on the power play, we need to score some goals.

I don't have that good a memory of it, but if he said it, it must be true. Just going the full season of competing together for the same team will be special for us.

There were a few things, obviously the big one was 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.

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're playing some good teams and the games are close, but no wins. It's not fun that's for sure. This is a good test, a good challenge.