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A finesse defenseman who has been compared to Paul Coffey by some scouts, Scott Niedermayer was the third player chosen overall and the first by New Jersey in 1991. Niedermayer was second among Kamloops defensemen in scoring last season and was named to the WHL West first All-Star team and selected as 1991 Canadian Major Junior Scholastic Player of the Year. After starting the 1991-92 season with the Devils, he was returned to Kamloops in November.
It's not unusual for 14 year olds to star in junior hockey; it's not unusual for boys to jump into the NHL while still of junior age nor is it strange for 22 year olds to star in the NHL. What is out of the ordinary is that Henri has done all of these things against the greatest of odds - lack of size in what is supposedly a "big man's game". In his early junior days he weighed less than 125 pounds yet held his own with boys four and five years older and as much as 75 pounds heavier.
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