Comments on: Report: Devils to retire Scott Niedermayer’s number this season

By: quizguy66

quizguy66 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:36:25 +0000

The Devils have retired two numbers:

#3 Daneyko
#4 Stevens

Niedermayer is clearly worthy of the honor and I’m glad they are doing it. As a Devils fan, there are fans who would have an issue with it as we are kinda funny that way.

There’s no maybe about #26 IMO. Elias has had a fantastic (and underrated) career.

-QG

By: littledill

littledill — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:08:36 +0000

I guess the Devils will have to retire number 27 for two players… Neidermayer and Mike Mottau. (not serious)

By: davebrownspiral

davebrownspiral — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:29:11 +0000

Out of curiosity, has Daneyko’s number been retired?

By: cdiercksen

cdiercksen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:26:51 +0000

As a Devils fan (which validates my comment more than everyone else’s because I said so) I say raise that number up. Within the next few years we (I say “we” because I’m a devils fan so I’m a part of this decision making process) are going to add #30 and maybe even #26 to the rafters as well. And we should! These guys were the workhorse players that made the cups happen for us. Niedermeyer is one of the best defenders in the history of the game and it sure is awesome to have him as such a large part of our history. Business is business and family is family and three stanley cups and hall of fame numbers speak for themselves. Raise it up.