The Career of Matt Niskanen
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- Since he retired today, I figured this would be a good time to make a video on his career.
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Matt Niskanen is one of the only players to play for all three sides of the Triangle of Hatred: Pittsburgh, Washington, and Philadelphia. Jaromir Jagr is the only other player I can think of off the top of my head.
Triangle of Hatred,sounds accurate
Never heard it called the Triangle of Hatred. Thats perfect.
One of 25 (or so) players who will always have a hero status in D.C.
Is DSP one of them? He should be
@@memphis4590
Yes. 7 huge goals. He's playing in the KHL now for Red Star in China.
@@memphis4590 - Yes, of course he is.
@@memphis4590 Most definitely! He had some huge goals in that run.
@@memphis4590 YES. His performance in the SCF was that good. And that tying goal in Game 5 vs Vegas was awesome.
Still one of the most underrated trades at the time: Niskanen & Neal for Goligoski 🐧
Niskanen was the most reliable defenseman in his own zone that the Caps had over the course of his tenure. Huge part of the team winning a cup. One of my favourites and his services will always be appreciated!
I remember I was a a caps flyers game in dc and Matt Niskanen layed the biggest hit I had ever seen.
Despite him playing 5 seasons for my favorite team I still have to look up how to spell his name.
N is kanen !
I remember the Capitals getting dunked on a lot when we signed Niskanen and Orpik to those contracts. Not only were they former Penguins (cue 'sloppy seconds' insults), but the term length was also pretty high. Years later, maybe the Capitals did overpay, but adding them both paid dividends, especially with a Cup win. For anyone that still wants to dunk on the Caps for signing them both, let me ask you something: can you put a price on leadership qualities or on intangibles?
I wish you the best in retirement, Nisky. You will always be a hero to the Capitals faithful.
He had more in him, but if he thinks it's time to go, then it's time to go.
Decent, solid at what he brought. For me he's a type of guy that's just there doing stuff in the background and do it well.
Always has been one of my favorite players, you'll forever be a legend in DC Nisky!
I'll never forget Jack Edwards saying Matty Niskanen’s not gonna be such a pretty little boy anymore! His face getting rearranged spawned one of the most iconic calls in hockey history
Good luck Nisky! Loved you as a cap and glad you got a cup with the Caps and not Pittsburgh
Should of never traded Nisky
Hurts the Flyers quite a bit, especially with the expansion draft coming up. With his contract expiring at the end of next season, it made the expansion draft easy for the Flyers with them protecting Provorov, Sanheim, and Myers. Now if the Flyers go out and sign a top 4 guy this off-season, they'll have four d-men that they'll need to protect.
Niskanen’s from near me in MN, in fact I skated with him one summer (Pitt years). He left half way through, lol, we probably weren’t good enough. Love his game though, he could play on my team anytime.
No Niskanen,you need to play one more game against the habs ,we owe you something !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm glad you included blocked shots and hits - it is (to me) silly to judge a D-man just based on offense
It would be interesting to see more defense-centric stats when looking at d-men. Not entirely sure what those would be, but still.
He will always be loved in DC
I think Niskanen is kinda the perfect top 4 defensemen now any team would take a defensemen that scores 25+ points and blocks shots and hits. Just an all around model defensemen any team could use
i call a defender diving down to defend a 2 on 1 a niskanen bc he was the first guy i saw do it
Damn that's a surprise. Well, time to bring up more youth.
Congrats on Nisky for a really good career. In terms of the Flyers, do you look to someone like Torey Krug to replace him or hope for a return to form for Ghost or young guys like Cam York or Egor Zamula to make the pro roster next year? There's plenty of intriguing options with that newfound cap space.
Good ol Minnesota boy.
Seriously Question in regards to niskys suspension.
He broke someones jaw with a crosscheck, while his former teammate Wilson broke someones jaw on a risky hit- how does Nisky get away with a one day suspension, on a play that is much more deliberately violent?
That was quick
Quality player.
good ol' finnlander outa Virginia Mn. UMD bulldog.
It's possible the Caps knew he was planning on retiring. Maybe that encouraged the Gudas trade?
Thanks for retiring, we'll take the cap money.
You won't get as good of a player for the same cap hit.
Good timing 👍
I thought he was drafted in 2005
He was
Never understood that trade for him and Neal for Goligoski.
will it be a live stream on the draft
As a flyers fan they should do either trade for Liane or sign Alex P. Problem is trading for Laine they want D men and Flyers cant give up more Dmen.
I guess he figures he's got everything he needs (cup ring), and enough money that he won't miss 5 mil? Still seems odd to be retiring at such a young age and while his last seasons wasn't bad.
apparently he retired because of covid concerns... can we just get rid of this virus already???
I think caps traded Niskanen knowing he wanted to retire soon so they took anyone they could get
That has to be the worst trade in dallas stars histoy. It cost niuwendyke his job in sure
wait he is done? wow
Breaking: MIN trade Devan Dubnyk, does this mean they’re gonna target Askarov? Please do a video hockeyguy!!
He talked about the Dubnyk-trade in the "More News:..." video that was posted prior to this
Pretty easy to replace just call up or sign any goon like defenseman who can block shots
Bogosian for the Norris trophy
Pittsburgh got a steal
#Frisky4Nisky
Poor guy got RKOd by Sid in the playoffs one year
2005 Draft
Glad he is gone. He was a bum. Crosby fought him back in the day, later joined Pittsburgh, then he signed with Pittsburgh's rival team and few years later in the playoffs he cross checked Crosby into his head. That was such a dirty play that Fleury removed his name from his mask where he had names of his former teammates. He was a snake and a dirty player.
His most recent play of any note was cross checking Gallagher for no reason and breaking his jaw so what you said seems to make sense
Adios!
Had to do something big before he retired so he broke Gallys jaw
ya chicken shit,play one more game with the habs
And he’s still yapping to this day 😆
Glad hes retired leagues better without him 🚫🧢
Salty habs fan said
Whiner