Scott Niedermayer was 19 years old when he appeared in his first NHL playoff game with the New Jersey Devils in 1993, staring at an arena of rabid Pittsburgh Penguins fans and hockey royalty across the ice.
"You're really naïve at that stage, which is probably a really good thing. When I was in that situation playing Pittsburgh, I probably had to pinch myself a little bit because you're in the Stanley Cup playoffs against [Mario] Lemieux and [Jaromir] Jagr and the rest of the guys on that team," Niedermayer told ESPN this week.