Position Right Wing Role Ice hockey player Shot Left Height 1.88 m | National team Canada Spouse Jessica Bentall (m. 2006) Name Rob Niedermayer Siblings Scott Niedermayer | |
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Born December 28, 1974 (age 49)
Cassiar, BC, CAN ( 1974-12-28 ) Weight 204 lb (93 kg; 14 st 8 lb) Played for Florida Panthers
Calgary Flames
Anaheim Ducks
New Jersey Devils
Buffalo Sabres NHL Draft 5th overall, 1993
Florida Panthers Children Brooke Niedermayer, Reese Niedermayer Parents Carol Niedermayer, Bob Niedermayer Similar People Scott Niedermayer, Ryan Getzlaf, Bruce Boudreau, Barney Bentall | ||
Eric lindros vs rob niedermayer
Robert Wade Niedermayer Jr. (born December 28, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 17 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons for the Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres.
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- Eric lindros vs rob niedermayer
- Rob niedermayer vs ben clymer
- National Hockey League
- National League A
- Personal life
- Transactions
- Awards and achievements
- References
He is the younger brother of former NHL defenceman Scott Niedermayer (the two were teammates for four seasons) and cousin of defenceman Jason Strudwick. Born in Cassiar, British Columbia, he and his brother Scott grew up in Cranbrook.
Rob niedermayer vs ben clymer
National Hockey League
Niedermayer was drafted 5th overall by the Florida Panthers in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. At the time he was playing for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He started his NHL career right away, without playing a game in the minors. During the 1996 NHL season he set career highs in goals, assists, and points in the regular season. In the playoffs, the Panthers went on an improbable playoff drive to the Stanley Cup Finals, before being swept in four games by the Colorado Avalanche. Niedermayer was hurt by concussions in the next years and was never able to achieve the same level of scoring ability again. His NHL role soon turned into a defensive forward.
On July 23, 2001, Niedermayer was traded from the Florida Panthers to the Calgary Flames with a draft pick for Valeri Bure and Jason Wiemer. He did not last long in Calgary, and at the 2003 trading deadline he was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. That same year he helped the Anaheim Ducks make an improbable run to the Stanley Cup Finals, his second such run. But again, Niedermayer's team lost, although this time it was in seven games to his brother's team, the New Jersey Devils. He and Scott became the first set of brothers to play against each other in the Stanley Cup Final since Ken and Terry Reardon did it in 1946. In the summer of 2005, Rob's brother Scott was signed by the Mighty Ducks, and for the first time in their NHL careers, the two brothers were playing on the same team.
He and his brother Scott (by this point captain of the Ducks, with Rob as an alternate) won the Stanley Cup together as members of the Anaheim Ducks defeating the Ottawa Senators four games to one in 2007, becoming the first brothers to win the Stanley Cup together since Duane and Brent Sutter accomplished the feat twice with the New York Islanders in 1982 and 1983. After Scott took the first lap around the ice with the Stanley Cup, he handed it to Rob. This was a break with Stanley Cup tradition; normally the alternate captain who has waited longest to win the Cup (in the 2006–07 Ducks' case, Chris Pronger and Teemu Selanne) takes the next lap after the captain takes his lap.
On September 25, 2009, Niedermayer was signed by the New Jersey Devils, a team his brother Scott had previously played on for 14 NHL seasons. On July 7, 2010, Niedermayer was signed by the Buffalo Sabres to a one-year contract worth a reported 1.15 million dollars.
National League A
After becoming a free agent following the 2011 season, Niedermayer signed with HC Lugano in Switzerland.
Personal life
On July 16, 2006, he married longtime girlfriend Jessica Bentall, daughter of Barney Bentall, whom he had been dating since March 2001. Together they have two daughters.