Joseph Nieuwendyk ( ; born September 10, 1966) is a
Canadian former
National Hockey League (NHL) player. He was a second round selection of the
Calgary Flames, 27th overall, at the
1985 NHL Entry Draft
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and played 20 seasons for the Flames,
Dallas Stars,
New Jersey Devils
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,
Toronto Maple Leafs, and
Florida Panthers
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. He is one of only 11 players in NHL history to win the
Stanley Cup
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with three or more different teams, winning titles with Calgary in 1989, Dallas in 1999 and New Jersey in 2003. A two-time
Olympian
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, Nieuwendyk won a gold medal with
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at the
2002 winter games. He was inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame
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in 2011 and his uniform number 25 was
honoured by the Flames in 2014. Joe Nieuwendyk was inducted into the
Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2017 Nieuwendyk was named one of the '
100 Greatest NHL Players
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' in history.
An accomplished
box lacrosse player, Nieuwendyk led the
Whitby Warriors to the 1984
Minto Cup national junior championship before focusing exclusively on hockey. He played university hockey with the
Cornell Big Red
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where he was a two-time All-American. He won the
Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL rookie of the year in 1988 after becoming only the second first-year player to score
50 goals. He was a four-time
All-Star, won the
King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 1995 for his leadership and humanitarian work, and was named the
Conn Smythe Trophy winner in 1999 as most valuable player of the postseason. Nieuwendyk played
1,257 games in his career, scoring
564 goals and
1,126 points.
Chronic back pain forced Nieuwendyk's retirement as a player in 2006. He then began a new career in management, acting first as a consultant to the general manager with the Panthers before moving onto the Maple Leafs where he was an assistant to the general manager. Nieuwendyk was the
general manager of the Dallas Stars between 2009 and 2013. He most recently worked as a pro scout and advisor for the
Carolina Hurricanes, until resigning his contract April 30, 2018.
Early life
Nieuwendyk was born September 10, 1966 in
Oshawa
Oshawa ( , also ; 2021 population 175,383; CMA 415,311) is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario, approximately east of Downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the G ...
,
Ontario, and grew up in
Whitby.
He is the youngest of four children to Gordon and Joanne Nieuwendyk, who immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in 1958. Gordon owned a car repair shop in Whitby.
Joe grew up in a sporting family. His brother Gil was a
box lacrosse player, while his uncle
Ed Kea and cousin
Jeff Beukeboom also played in the
National Hockey League (NHL).
His best friend growing up was future NHL teammate
Gary Roberts.
He played both hockey and lacrosse growing up and the latter considered his better sport. At one point, Nieuwendyk was considered the top junior lacrosse player in Canada.
He earned a spot with the
Whitby Warriors junior A team at the age of 15,
and was named the most valuable player of the
Minto Cup tournament in 1984 when he led the Warriors to the national championship. The
Ontario Lacrosse Association later named its junior A rookie of the year award after Nieuwendyk.
Playing career
College
Nieuwendyk went undrafted by any
Ontario Hockey League team, and so played a season of
junior B for the
Pickering Panthers in 1983–84. Eligible for the
1984 NHL Entry Draft
The 1984 NHL Entry Draft was the 22nd NHL Entry Draft. It took place on June 9, 1984, at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec.
The 1984 Entry Draft is noted for the unusually high number of future Hall of Famers picked, particularly in lower ...
but unselected, he chose to attend
Cornell University where he played hockey and lacrosse for the
Big Red.
He was named the
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) hockey rookie of the year in 1984–85 after scoring 39 points in 23 games.
At the
1985 NHL Entry Draft
The 1985 NHL Entry Draft was the 23rd NHL Entry Draft. It was the first draft outside Montreal. The event was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, and attended by 7,000 fans. The National Hockey League (NHL) teams sele ...
, the
Calgary Flames selected him in the second round, 27th overall, with a pick obtained that day in a trade with the
Minnesota North Stars for
Kent Nilsson. The disappointment in Calgary over the trade of Nilsson resulted in some criticism of Nieuwendyk's selection, famously leading to a local newspaper to question the moves with the headline "Joe Who?"
Returning to Cornell for the 1985–86 season, Nieuwendyk chose to give up lacrosse in order to focus on hockey.
He was named an ECAC first team All-Star in 1985–86 and an NCAA All-American after scoring 42 points in 21 games.
In his final season at Cornell, he was named the team's most valuable player and led the ECAC in scoring with 52 points. He was again named an ECAC All-Star and NCAA All-American, and a finalist for the 1987
Hobey Baker Award.
Nieuwendyk chose to forgo his senior year in favour of turning professional. In 81 games with Cornell, Nieuwendyk scored 73 goals and 151 points, both among the highest totals in the school's history. His number 25 jersey was retired by Cornell in 2010, shared with
Ken Dryden's number 1 as the first such numbers retired by the hockey team, and believed the first in any sport in the school's varsity sports history. In 2011, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in ECAC history.
Calgary Flames
Once his junior season at Cornell ended, Nieuwendyk joined the
national team for five games before turning professional with the Flames.
He made his NHL debut on March 10, 1987, against the
Washington Capitals and scored his first NHL goal against goaltender
Pete Peeters.
He appeared in nine regular season games in the
1986–87 NHL season
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League business
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, scoring five goals and one assist, and appeared in six playoff games.
Playing his first full season in
1987–88, Nieuwendyk captured the attention of the sports media by scoring 32 goals in his first 42 games to put him on a pace to surpass
Mike Bossy
Michael Dean Bossy (January 22, 1957April 15, 2022) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and ...
's rookie record of 53 goals.
Nieuwendyk finished two goals short of Bossy's record, but led the team with 51 goals and was the second first-year player to score at least
50 goals in one season. He played in his first
NHL All-Star Game, was named to the
All-Rookie Team and was voted the winner of the
Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top rookie.
Nieuwendyk again scored 51 goals in
1988–89 and marked the 100th of his career in his 144th career game. At the time, he was the third fastest player to reach the milestone, behind Bossy (129 games) and
Maurice Richard
Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL hist ...
(134 games), and was the third player in league history to score 50 goals in each of his first two seasons (Bossy and
Wayne Gretzky).
He led the league with 11 game-winning goals and set a Flames franchise record on January 11, 1989, when he scored
five goals in one game against the
Winnipeg Jets. Nieuwendyk appeared in his second of three-consecutive All-Star Games.
In the
1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 5, after the conclusion of the 1988–89 NHL season. This was the final year that all of the Division Semifinals began with teams playing t ...
, he scored 10 goals and four assists to help the Flames win their first- and only -
Stanley Cup
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championship in franchise history. In the clinching game against the
Montreal Canadiens, Nieuwendyk set up
Lanny McDonald's final NHL goal with a quick pass after receiving the puck from
HÃ¥kan Loob.
A 45-goal season in
1989–90 was enough for Nieuwendyk to lead the team in goal scoring for the third consecutive season.
He missed he first 11 games of the
1991–92 NHL season
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after suffering a knee injury during a summer evaluation camp for the
1991 Canada Cup
The 1991 Labatt Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament played in August and September 1991. The finals took place in Montreal on September 14 and Hamilton on September 16, and were won by Canada. The Canadians defeated ...
.
Nieuwendyk began the season as the 12th
captain
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in the Flames franchise history. He was limited to 22 goals and 56 points on the season, but scored his 200th career goal on December 3, 1991, against the
Detroit Red Wings
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. His 230th career goal, scored against the
Tampa Bay Lightning on November 13, 1992, established a Flames franchise record for career goals (since broken).
Nieuwendyk entered the
1995–96 season unhappy with his contract status. Unable to come to terms with the Flames, he had gone to arbitration, and was awarded a contract worth
C$1.85 million, but insisted on renegotiating the deal into a long-term contract extension. He refused an offer of a three-year, $6 million contract from the Flames, and as the dispute dragged on, chose not to join the team when the season began. He remained a holdout until December 19, 1995, when the Flames traded him to the
Dallas Stars in exchange for
Jarome Iginla and
Corey Millen.
Dallas Stars
The Stars immediately signed Nieuwendyk to a new deal worth US$11.3 million over five years.
Bob Gainey, the team's general manager, hoped that the acquisition of Nieuwendyk would help the franchise, which had relocated from Minnesota three years previous, establish its place in Dallas.
Nieuwendyk scored 14 goals and 32 points in 52 games with the Stars to finish the 1995–96 season.
Nieuwendyk improved to 30 goals in
1996–97 despite missing the first month of the season with fractured
rib cartilage. A 39-goal season followed,
but he was again sidelined by injury after appearing in only one game of the
1998 Stanley Cup playoffs
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. In the opening game of the Stars' first-round series against the
San Jose Sharks, he suffered a
torn ACL as a result of a check by
Bryan Marchment.
The injury required two knee surgeries to repair and six months to heal, which caused him to miss the beginning of the
1998–99 NHL season
The 1998–99 NHL season was the 82nd regular season of the National Hockey League. The league expanded to 27 teams with the addition of the Nashville Predators. The Dallas Stars finished first in regular season play, and won the Stanley Cup cham ...
.
He finished the regular season with 28 goals and 55 points in 67 games,
and added 11 goals and 10 assists in the
1999 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL), began on April 21, 1999, following the 1998–99 NHL season. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for ...
to help the Stars win the first Stanley Cup in their franchise history.
Six of his playoff goals were game winners, and he was voted the winner of the
Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs.
Injuries again limited Nieuwendyk in
1999–2000. He missed ten games due to a bruised chest then suffered a separated shoulder a week after his return that kept him out of the lineup for several weeks. He played only 47 regular season games, but added 23 more in the playoffs as the Stars reached the
2000 Stanley Cup Finals
The 2000 Stanley Cup Finals was the Stanley Cup Finals, championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1999–2000 NHL season, 1999–2000 season, and the culmination of the 2000 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the Eastern Co ...
.
They lost the series in six games to the
New Jersey Devils
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, however.
Nieuwendyk played in his
1,000th career game on January 20, 2002, against the
Chicago Blackhawks. Two months later, on March 19, 2002, he was traded to the Devils, along with
Jamie Langenbrunner, in exchange for
Jason Arnott,
Randy McKay and a first round selection in the
2002 NHL Entry Draft
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New Jersey, Toronto and Florida
New Jersey, who had won the Stanley Cup in 2000 and reached the finals the following year, acquired Nieuwendyk for their playoff run in 2002.
He scored 11 points in 14 regular season games for the Devils following the trade,
but New Jersey was eliminated in the first round of the
2002 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 2002 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League began on April 17, 2002.
The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Carolina Hurricanes on June 13, 2002, four games to one, to win their tenth championship in their hi ...
by the
Carolina Hurricanes.
Nieuwendyk reached two offensive milestones in
2002–03. He scored his
500th career goal on January 17, 2003, against Carolina's
Kevin Weekes. On February 23, he scored his
1,000th point in a win over the
Pittsburgh Penguins. He and the Devils reached the
2003 Stanley Cup Finals
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, but Nieuwendyk suffered a hip injury in the sixth game of the
Eastern Conference Final that prevented him from appearing in the championship series. The Devils defeated the
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the final, capturing the franchise's third Stanley Cup. For Nieuwendyk, it was his third title with his third different team.
The
Toronto Maple Leafs signed Nieuwendyk to a one-year contract for the
2003–04 season. He scored 22 goals for Toronto in a season marred by abdominal and back injuries that limited him to 64 games played. After scoring two goals in the decisive Game 7 opening round series victory against the Ottawa Senators, a groin injury that forced him out of the lineup for much of Toronto's second-round series loss to the
Philadelphia Flyers. He signed another one-year deal for
2004–05, but the season was cancelled due to a
labour dispute that was feared would mark the end of the 38-year-old Nieuwendyk's career.
When NHL play resumed in
2005–06, the
Florida Panthers
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sought to bolster their lineup with veteran players. They signed both Nieuwendyk and Roberts, who had played together in Calgary and Toronto and wanted to finish their careers together, to two-year, $4.5 million contracts. Nieuwendyk appeared in 65 games during the season, scoring 26 goals and 56 points.
He appeared in 15 games in
2006–07 before chronic back pain forced him onto injured reserve. After missing 14 games, Nieuwendyk announced his retirement on December 7, 2006.
International play
As a member of the
Canadian national junior team at the
1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
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, Nieuwendyk scored five goals in seven games to help Canada win a silver medal. His 12 points in the tournament tied him for third in scoring for Team Canada and fourth overall in the tournament. One year later, Nieuwendyk joined the
senior national team for the
Calgary Cup
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, a four-team exhibition tournament that served as a preview event for the
1988 Winter Olympics
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. He scored a goal in each of the first two games, losses to the
United States and
Czechoslovakia, for the Canadian team that won the bronze medal. He joined the senior team again for the
1990 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
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, but appeared in only one game after suffering a knee injury. He was invited to Team Canada's summer camp for the
1991 Canada Cup
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tournament but suffered a knee injury that caused him to miss the entire tournament.
NHL players were first allowed to participate in the
Olympic ice hockey tournament in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
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. Nieuwendyk was among the players named to join Canada's "dream team". He scored two goals and three assists in six games,
but was one of several Canadian players stopped by Czech goaltender
Dominik Hašek in a
shootout loss in the semifinals. Canada then dropped a 3–2 decision to
Finland to finish fourth. Nieuwendyk played alongside
Brendan Shanahan and
Theoren Fleury on Canada's checking line at the
2002 Olympic tournament.
He scored one goal and helped Canada win its first Olympic hockey gold medal in 50 years.
Playing style
Cliff Fletcher, who drafted him into the NHL, described Nieuwendyk as being a "pre-eminent two-way guy who had 50-goal seasons", adding that "he had a great stick around the net, he had a great shot, he saw the ice well, he could skate, he had the size – he had everything you needed to have. History has indicated that wherever he went, the team was competitive. The more that was on the line in big games, the better Joe played."
He was an offensive centre in Calgary and
power play specialist, able to withstand the physical punishment required to stand in front of the net and battle defencemen for the puck.
He led the NHL in power play goals in 1987–88 with 31 and finished in the top ten on four other occasions.
Wayne Gretzky, who also played box lacrosse in his youth, argued that the skills Nieuwendyk learned dodging opposing players in that sport aided his development as a hockey player.
Nieuwendyk was regarded as a top
faceoff man,
a skill that Team Canada relied on during the Olympics.
He was a checking-line centre at the 2002 Olympics, relied on for his defensive and faceoff abilities.
Nieuwendyk was regarded as a leader throughout his career. He was the captain of the Flames for four seasons, and his teammates in Dallas praised him as a player who would help guide the younger players as they began their careers. His presence was considered an important factor in New Jersey's 2003 Stanley Cup championship. Devils' general manager
Lou Lamoriello praised his impact both on and off the ice: "Certainly (the tangibles were) the quality player he was even at that time, how good he was defensively as well as always finding a way to get big goals. It was also about how good he was on faceoffs. And the intangibles, which are really more tangible than anything, are what he brought in the locker room from leadership and unselfishness. It was obvious that when he didn't play he was still so active in his support. He's genuine in every sense of the word. He was a true team player." Nieuwendyk was inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame
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in 2011,
and his uniform number 25 was
honoured by the Calgary Flames on March 7, 2014, as he was named to the organization's "Forever a Flame" program.
Management career
Remaining in hockey following the end of his playing career, Nieuwendyk joined the Florida Panthers' front office as a consultant to general manager
Jacques Martin in 2007. He left the Panthers after one year to join the Maple Leafs as special assistant to general manager
Cliff Fletcher in 2008. He served as assistant general manager for the silver-medal winning Canadian national team at the
2009 World Championships, and on June 1, 2009, was named
general manager of the Dallas Stars. His ability to make moves was at times limited by the financial difficulty of team owner
Tom Hicks. Among Nieuwendyk's decisions in his first two seasons as general manager was to allow popular former captain
Mike Modano to leave the organization after 22 years with the franchise in 2010. Nieuwendyk stated such moves were difficult, as he played with Modano and considered him a friend. Nieuwendyk was released as Stars' general manager at the conclusion of the
2012–13 NHL season
The 2012–13 NHL season was the 96th season of operation (95th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season began on January 19, 2013 and ended on April 28, 2013, with the playoffs to follow until June.
The season s ...
as team owner
Tom Gaglardi stated that the team wanted to "take this organization in a different direction". On September 3, 2014, the Carolina Hurricanes announced they had hired him as a pro scout and advisor. He resigned from his position with Carolina on April 30, 2018.
Personal life
Nieuwendyk and his wife Tina have three children: daughters Tyra and Kaycee and son Jackson.
Jackson is presently playing in
Penticton, British Columbia with the
Penticton Vees of the
British Columbia Hockey League
The British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) is a Junior A ice hockey league from British Columbia under Hockey Canada and BC Hockey. Founded in Vernon in 1961, the BCHL now includes 18 teams.
From 1993 to 2021, the league was a member of the Ca ...
. He is committed to play in the
NCAA with
Canisius College
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in the
Buffalo, New York area for the 2023-2024
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey season.
In 1995, while a member of the Flames, Nieuwendyk won the
King Clancy Memorial Trophy given annually to the player "who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and who has made a significant humanitarian contribution to his community". He was honoured by the league for his contributions to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), and was a spokesman and honorary chairman of the
Foothills Hospital
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Foundation. He remained active with the SPCA after his trade to Dallas, and following the
September 11 attacks, organized a charity softball game that raised $115,000 for charitable groups in the aftermath of the attack. While a member of the Maple Leafs during the lockout, he participated in a charity hockey game organized by cancer survivor and former NHL player
Keith Acton that raised $30,000 for cancer and leukemia charities in southern Ontario.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honours
References
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1966 births
Living people
Calder Trophy winners
Calgary Flames captains
Calgary Flames draft picks
Calgary Flames players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian lacrosse players
Canadian people of Dutch descent
Carolina Hurricanes scouts
Conn Smythe Trophy winners
Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey players
Dallas Stars executives
Dallas Stars players
Florida Panthers executives
Florida Panthers players
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Oshawa
Sportspeople from Whitby, Ontario
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
King Clancy Memorial Trophy winners
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
National Hockey League All-Stars
New Jersey Devils players
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Olympic ice hockey players of Canada
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Stanley Cup champions
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans