42 Quotes by Scott Niedermayer

The playoffs are tough. Nothing is going to be given to you. Tonight, we played like we expected that something would be given to us.

When the game's going to be a lot of special teams, you have to be strong on both of them. Tonight, we scored on our player play, but we allowed them (to score). It's a balance. You have to be good on both of them.

Those two guys know each other quite well. They've probably done that hundreds of times before.

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

We felt good coming into the third period just down by one; you're still there, you're one shot from tying the game up.

We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.

We should have known that (after) a long layoff, you want to keep things simple and build from there. It took us awhile to figure that out.

Everybody is cranked up and that's why it's so intense and so much fun to be out there.

(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.