As a youth, Nödl played in the 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Austria.

[1] Nödl played two seasons with the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League (USHL) before moving on to the St.

Coincidentally, Nödl is not the only Austrian-born player to play for the Stampede — Thomas Vanek, now of the Detroit Red Wings, spent three years with the club.

[4] After failing to secure an NHL contract and initially returning to Europe as a free agent, signing with HC Lausanne of the Swiss National League A, Nödl was released from his tryout contract prior to the season and would split the 2013–14 campaign in his native Austria with EC KAC and EC Red Bull Salzburg.

[citation needed] On October 16, 2014, Nödl belatedly signed on as a free agent with fellow EBEL club, the Vienna Capitals.