bleuer
04-07-2005, 07:44 AM
just wondering if burnett played instead of him...
regular season:
9GP, 3/1 = 4, 74PIM (2nd in league)...
but it gets better!
Playoffs:
4GP, 1/0 = 0, 60PIM (1st in league, 2nd had 31...)
bleuer
04-07-2005, 08:45 AM
i jsut emailed to hungarian ice hockey federation, asking why he got so many PIM's...
"the Hungarian League is not the NHL…
He used body check several times and sometimes he was so hard to our body check level." :)
McDonald19
04-07-2005, 02:59 PM
Good mini article about Niedermayer and his cousin Jason Strudwick playing in Hungary in the March 29th issue of The Hockey News:
"...Neither Niedermayer nor Strudwick, however, needed to be too concerned given their reputations as hard-hitters. The day after a check broke both collarbones of a opposition player, "Niedermayer" had become a Hungarian adjective for aggressive play in any sport..."