Simon Nielsen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 goaltender

Goaltender

In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...

 who currently plays for Lukko

Lukko

Lukko is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga, formed 1936. The full name of the club is Rauman Lukko. They play in Rauma, Finland at the Äijänsuo Arena. They have won the national championship once, in 1963...

 in the top Finnish league, the SM-liiga

SM-liiga

The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...

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Nielsen holds the distinction of having represented Denmark four times at the Ice Hockey World Championships

Ice Hockey World Championships

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...

 without getting any ice time. He last was a member of the Danish squad at the 2011 IIHF World Championship as a third string goaltender to Frederik Andersen

Frederik Andersen

Frederik Andersen is a Danish ice hockey goaltender, who currently plays for Frölunda HC. Andersen was a member of Denmark's national men's ice hockey team that competed at the 2010 IIHF World Championship...

 and Patrick Galbraith

Patrick Galbraith (ice hockey)

Patrick Galbraith is a Danish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga. He participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Denmark men's national ice hockey team.Patrick's father, George Galbraith, was also an ice...

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Personal information

Simon Nielsen is the younger brother of New York Islanders

New York Islanders

The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 player Frans Nielsen

Frans Nielsen

Frans Nielsen is a Danish professional ice hockey player currently playing with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League . He is the first Danish citizen to play in the NHL.-Playing career:...

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