If you're a 6'3" 210 pound person with a love for hockey, you usually are a defenseman. I had the option to follow my uncle Rob as a shut down forward, or my father Scott as an offensive defenseman, I followed my dad. From the title you may know who my dad is, if you don't, he is Scott Niedermayer, and I'm Andrew. I faced the usual adversity, "You'll never be as good as him", "It's not a good idea to be a D man", and "What if you disgrace him?". I just ignored them. But draft day krept up and scared me. What if I am a bust like Daigle or Stefan? I phoned my buddies Ernie Volpe, Peter Carey, Eric Hunter, Gibbey Gibson, and Jack Sneider. Carey was ranked #1 and I was a 2nd round pick, it was great we were all friends. We sat down and played an NHL 08 tournament, we all made ourselves on the teams we wanted to be drafted by, Peter picked the Islanders, Volpe took Philly, Eric took Vancouver, Gibbey took Tampa, Sneids took Ottawa and I took New Jersey, but I strongley considered Anaheim, where my dad and uncle play. The finals were New Jersey versus Vancouver, I though me and the 3 time cup champion Devils could easily slide by the Canucks, but boy was I wrong, Eric is one of the best players i have ever played against. The Canucks won 4-3 to take the tourney, the Devils wins were all 1-0 but the Canucks scored 2-3 goals in the other 4. Eric proved that no matter who you are its how you think, I had the "Oh yeah this will be easy" mentality, he had the "I can do this I will do this" mentality. He proved that if you believe and don't get cockey you will achieve, I think he has just hugely impacted my career by making me think "Who cares when or where I get drafted, as long as I try."
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Good start, can't wait for more.
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Hey man. this is a good opening. but. you should really ask peoples permission to use there BAP guys in yours. you didnt ask me. Im ok with it. but next time please ask..
Plus. Jacks team Is Ottawa NOT Dallas. XD keep this upWhen life gets me down, I get over it!Comment
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Good start but you know who the real 1st Overall pick is:wink:
(it's me)!Regrets Aren't Something You Did, It's Something You Didn't Do
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nice start im following.Comment
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Very, very good start.
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Very good start! Love it already :PComment
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nice start, bro.
good luck with this one.Comment
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Finding an agent is one of the hardest things I have ever done, who do you get? Can he get you enough money? Do you want one with good publicity? Those were questions that ran through my head when I was looking. The painful thing is I couldn't find one. What if I couldn't do something my uncle and dad have done as well as many other players? Would I have to be my own agent? The last guy I talked to was a great friend of my dad, Kevin Epp, his agent. Epp was as good a back up plan as I could have asked for, but, the idea of being my own agent grew on me. I decided to have a meeting with Epp my father and my mom Lisa. Epp said the since he has great connections especially with New Jersey and Anaheim he could help me rise in the rankings as well as set me up some training sessions with former NHL'ers, and that convinced me to sign on the dotted line to hire him as my agent. I have an agent.Comment
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Day 1 of training,
Trainer, No other than Scott Niedermayer.
Was it weird having my dad go into insane NHL trainer on me? Yes. But, I liked it. If he'd done that the minute I agreed to play for Kamloops of the WHL, I would have been as good as he was then, maybe he didn't want me to face those comparisons. We started off with passing drills at the local rink. he'd dump the puck in, want me to pick it up and fire one to center ice quickly. We did that for half an hour. The next thing we did was one timers. I'd sit in the middle of the point wait for the pass and wire it. We did that for half an hour before changing to passing one timers. That went for 45 minutes. The final thing we did was half rink 1 on 1. he won 9-4 leaving me sweating.
Day 2,
Trainer, Chris Pronger and George Parros.
They had me do board play, checking, fighting, and net clearing. We started with board play. I had to pin Pronger and get the puck to Parros. I failed miserably, but I did succeed once. The next thing that we did was checking. I had to slow down Parros when he was coming in. Chris taught me that you don't always have to go for the big hit but just enough to slow him up and take the puck. I succeeded in the end but it took some training. Fighting was what scared me, Me versus Parros. Parros showed me the best techniques. We didn't stay on that too long because I wasn't expected to fight. We went to net clearing, Parros would screen, and Pronger would shoot. I would have to move Parros for PRonger to get the clear shot. It was hard, but I found if I got my leg behind his and pushed, I could turn him and clear some net. Then day 2 was done.
2 days 3 players 7 drills and one one on one, what's next?Comment
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Cool man, liked the updates!Comment
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