Eric Lindros
Eric Bryan Lindros ( born February 28, 1973 in London, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League.
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Career
Lindros started his career with the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League, where he played from 1990 to 1992. Lindros, already in the junior age a star, scored 97 goals and 119 assists for a total of 216 points scorer in 95 games for the Generals. At the same time he attended college in Toronto, together with his brother Brett also Hockey gambling Lindros.
In the Ontario Hockey League, he was first of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds been drafted, he refused to play but before the draft for this club. The owner of the greyhounds, the NHL legend Phil Esposito, it draftete nevertheless, because he speculated on being able to sell the team thus at a higher price. After Lindros ' refusal he joined a barter trade with the Oshawa Generals. As both teams competed against each other, some of the Greyhounds players wore black armbands as a sign of protest against the change Posse to Lindros.
A similar situation in the draft arose when Lindros was selected as the number 1 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques in 1991. Lindros absolutely refused to go to the Nordiques and played instead in the following season for the Oshawa Generals, with whom he both the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the Memorial Cup was won in 1990, and for the Canadian national team, in which he was at times captain. Eventually, he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers, for which he then from 1992 to 2000, again mostly as their captain, played. In return, Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Mike Ricci, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne and moved from the Flyers to the Nordiques, which also have received the Draft drawing rights and a cash payment. The team was sold the Nordiques to Colorado in 1995 and was promoted under the name Colorado Avalanche to a top team that won the Stanley Cup twice, among other things. The Lindros exchange is considered as essential for this cause.
Lindros ' strengths were his physique - at a size of 1.93 meters, he weighed more than 100 kg - and his aggressive style of play, but he combined with excellent technique. However, it was over the last years in the statistics a decline in its effectiveness to observe what was mostly on Lindros ' numerous injuries including several concussions returned. The attribute "The Next One" as the next Canadian megastar, in reference to "The Great One" ( Wayne Gretzky ) and " The Magnificent One" ( Mario Lemieux ), he could at any rate never meet.
In the shortened due to the lockout NHL season 1994/95 he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as most valuable player. Disappointing, however, was the Stanley Cup final in 1997, where his Philadelphia Flyers to the Detroit Red Wings smooth subject with 0-4 games, even though the Flyers had convinced in the previous series. Lindros scored his only goal in the final series just before the end of the last game, when his team was 0-2 in arrears.
In the season 1999/2000 the strained relationship has always been with Bobby Clarke, General Manager of the Flyers escalated. During a game in April at the Nashville Predators Lindros suffered an injury that was diagnosed by the medical department of the Flyers as a rib injury. In the following night found him Keith Jones, a player the Flyers and Lindros ' roommate, pale and with high fever lying in the bathtub. At the hospital, a collapsed lung was noted. Lindros ' parents, who were previously often occurred clamoring for her son in public, among other things, when it came, whom Clarke with Eric Lindros should be play together, the team doctors described as a bungler and subordinate them to want to kill her son.
Lindros returned in the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals, the semi finals for the Stanley Cup in the team, but was no longer captain. In the second game, he suffered a new concussion by a hard check by Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils; the Flyers lost this game and thus the series. With the end of the season and his contract ran out at the Flyers and Lindros refused to sign a new. He would instead be transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs, but what the Flyers, who still owned the rights to him by the NHL regulations in non-contracting state refused. As a consequence, Lindros did not play the entire 2000/01 season, until he was finally released in 2001 by the Flyers to the New York Rangers. This lacked many observers is a certain irony, since it was the Rangers, who ten years earlier, when Lindros refused to play for the Quebec Nordiques, had tried jointly with the Flyers to sign him. At that time the Rangers had felt treated very unfairly, as Lindros moved to Philadelphia.
In the following three seasons he ran for the Rangers. In 2004 he suffered the eighth concussion of his career. He was able to start training again, but two doctors advised him to end his career. After the end of the season 2003 /04, his contract ran out at the Rangers the following season was due to the lockout from.
After the end of the lockout Lindros signed then a relatively lightly doped one- year contract for 1.55 million U.S. dollars for his dream club, the Toronto Maple Leafs. But even here, tormented him in the 2005/06 season injuries. At the end, there were 22 points in 33 games to book.
For the 2006/07 season Lindros for the Dallas Stars, where he also received one, with 1.5 million U.S. dollars, lightly doped contract. Lindros was plagued by injuries but again, so that his contract was not renewed by the stars in the summer of 2007. Then Lindros moved in July 2007 his retirement from hockey in consideration, however, precipitated until November 9, not a final decision, before his retirement after 16 years and 760 games in the NHL told for health reasons at a press conference. Currently he is involved in the restructuring of the players 'union National Hockey League Players' Association.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 Junior World Cup 1990
- U20 World Junior Championships 1991
- Canada Cup 1991
- U20 World Junior Championships 1992
- 1992 Winter Olympic Games
- World Cup 1993
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- 2002 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )