Rob Niedermayer

Infobox Ice Hockey Player

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image_size = 200px
team=Anaheim Ducks
former_teams = Florida Panthers
Calgary Flames
league = NHL
position = Right Wing
shoots = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 2
weight_lb = 204
nationality = CAN
birth_date = birth date and age|1974|12|28
birth_place = Cassiar, BC
draft = 5th overall
draft_year = 1993
draft_team = Florida Panthers
career_start = 1993

Robert W. Niedermayer Jr. [cite web | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?statsId=662 | title = Rob Niedermayer | publisher = ESPN | accessdate = 2008-02-17] (born December 28, 1974) is a Canadian ice hockey centre with the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL. He is the younger brother of fellow Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer and cousin of Edmonton Oilers defenseman Jason Strudwick.

Career

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 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 has never been able to achieve the same level of scoring ability again. His NHL role soon turned into a defensive forward.Fact|date=February 2007

On 23 July, 2001, Niedermayer was traded from Florida 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 Anaheim 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.

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.

Rob Niedermayer and his brother Scott won the Stanley Cup together as members of the Anaheim Ducks defeating the Ottawa Senators four games to one in 2007. In a break from tradition, Scott, who had won three Stanley Cups with the New Jersey Devils, handed the Cup to Rob after taking his lap around the Honda Center ice. Custom dictates that the alternate captain who has waited the longest to win the Cup (in the Ducks' case, Chris Pronger) get to skate the Cup after the captain takes his lap.

Rob married his wife Jessica in July 2007 and they welcomed daughter, Brooke on April 25, 2008.

Movements

*June 26, 1993 - Drafted by the Florida Panthers in the first round, 5th overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft
*June 23, 2001 - Traded to the Calgary Flames with a 2001 2nd round draft pick (Andrei Medvedev) for Valeri Bure and Jason Wiemer
*March 11, 2003 - Traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for Jean-François Damphousse and Mike Commodore

Awards and Achievements

*2006-07 - NHL - Stanley Cup (Anaheim)

tatistics

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" width="75%" style="text-align:center"
- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Regular Season! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Playoffs
- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"! Season! Team! League! GP! G! A! Pts! PIM! GP! G! A! Pts! PIM 1990-91 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 71 24 26 50 8 12 3 7 10 2 1991-92 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 71 32 46 78 77 4 2 3 5 2 1992-93 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 52 43 34 77 67 - - - - - 1993-94 Florida Panthers NHL 65 9 17 26 51 - - - - - 1994-95 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 13 9 15 24 14 - - - - - 1994-95 Florida Panthers NHL 48 4 6 10 36 - - - - - 1995-96 Florida Panthers NHL 82 26 35 61 107 22 5 3 8 12 1996-97 Florida Panthers NHL 60 14 24 38 54 5 2 1 3 6 1997-98 Florida Panthers NHL 33 8 7 15 41 - - - - - 1998-99 Florida Panthers NHL 82 18 33 51 50 - - - - - 1999-00 Florida Panthers NHL 81 10 23 33 46 - - - - - 2000-01 Florida Panthers NHL 67 12 20 32 50 4 1 0 1 6 2001-02 Calgary Flames NHL 57 6 14 20 49 - - - - - 2002-03 Calgary Flames NHL 54 8 10 18 42 - - - - - 2002-03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 12 2 2 4 15 21 3 7 10 18 2003-04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 55 12 16 28 34 - - - - - 2004-05 Ferencvaros TC Hungary 5 2 1 3 14 - - - - - 2005-06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 76 15 24 39 89 16 1 3 4 10 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 82 5 11 16 77 21 5 5 10 39 2007-08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 78 8 8 16 54 2 0 0 0 0 14 Seasons NHL Totals 932 157 250 407 795 91 17 19 36 91

*Note at the end of the 2005-2006 season the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim change team name to Anaheim Ducks.

See also

* Notable families in the NHL
*List of current NHL players
*List of WHL seasons
*List of Anaheim Ducks players

References

*2005 NHL Official Guide & Record Book ISBN 0-920445-91-8

External links

*hockeydb|3964
* [http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?playerId=669 ESPN.com profile]
*nhlprofile|8459427
* [http://www.nhlpa.com/WebStats/PlayerBiography.asp?ID=4162 NHLPA.com profile]