Goodbye Scotty

The Ducks season ended on a nice win against the Edmonton Oilers 7-2 win Before the game, fans lined the glass as usual to watch their team take the ice for warm-ups. Only this time,  signs were pressed against the glass and at least 95% of them were directed towards Teemu Selanne and Scott Niedermayer "One More Year" 

"Thank you Scotty and Teemu" " Thank you 27 and 8" so many different signs. Fans came out to the last game of the season to support their favorite hockey team. Even if every fan there knew that the Ducks didn't make the playoffs. Last time Anaheim missed the playoffs was in 2005. What fans really wanted to see was their Ducks play one last game before summer. Fans wanted to see two player, who the were unsure of that would return for next season. With the popular social media Twitter a source so many rely to get instant updates of. Twitter accounts told fans that there will be a official meeting at Honda Center with Niedermayer at 1pm Pacific. Before  that Ducks fans read something they didn't want to really hear: Eric Stephans of the Orange County Register confirmed that Niedermayer was going to retire today. At 1pm Scotty announced his retirement 

"After plenty of reflection, I’m here to announce that I retire from professional hockey." Scotty kept the tears back when he was announcing his retirement but he really started to break when he was thanking his family. 

Scotty was one of the most decorative defenseman in the league, he was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in 1991 and won his first Stanley Cup with New Jersey in 1995. Niedermayer has three Cups with New Jersey and when he signed as a free-agent August 4th, 2005 with Anaheim to play with brother Rob. After his contract was up with Jersey, a team who did want him to come back but he made the decision to sign with Anaheim. In 2007, Scotty helped Anaheim win the first Stanley Cup in California. The winning goal against the Red Wings in Overtime in Game 5  on May 13, 2007 was a series changing goal. 

Niedermayer is the only player in history to win a Memorial Cup, a World Cup, Gold Medal, and Stanley Cup. Scotty won the Gold with Canada in the 2010 Olympics virtually in his backyard in Vancouver. When Sidney Crosby scored the winning trash goal in Overtime. After Zach Parise scored with just three seconds left in regulation. 

Scotty will stay with the Ducks as a consultant although he does not know what he will be doing exactly but at least he'll be around.

Scotty is irreplaceable. No one and absolutely no one can replace a player like Scotty. Thank you Scotty for everything