Brett Lindros

Brett Lindros
Date of birth	2nd December 1975
place of birth	London , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 75
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1994 , 1st round, 9th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1991-1992	St. Michael's Buzzers
1992-1994	Kingston Frontenacs
1994-1996	New York Islanders

Brett Alexander Blake Lindros (born December 2, 1975 in London , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . During his career he played for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League . He is the younger brother of Eric Lindros .

Career

Lindros began his career in the 1992/93 season, in which he played for the Kingston Frontenacs from the Ontario Hockey League and the Canadian national team. The following season also went on, where he played the greater part of the games this time for the national team on an international level. Despite a relatively meager points haul of 32 points in 46 games in the OHL, an already recovering from knee surgery and several concussions that had forced him in his junior time again and again breaks that elected him New York Islanders in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the first round in ninth position overall, as it impressed Lindros' physical presence, which his brother Eric had shone as a junior player.

The New York Islanders got him to sign a five-year contract with an average salary of $ 1.5 million a year after an impressive training camp in September before the 1994/95 season , but due to the lockout in the NHL at the beginning of the The Islanders sent the right winger back to the OHL to the Frontenacs for the first half of the season. There he was able to shine for the first time with his offensive production. After the start of the NHL season, the Canadian came to 33 appearances in the jersey of the New Yorkers and scored four points. In the following season, Lindros' missions were limited to only 18. After he had suffered another concussion in the preseason, two more followed in November 1995, which meant that Lindros had to struggle with the secondary symptoms more than before and couldn't get back on the ice. Three doctors treating independently then advised that Lindros should end his career at the age of 20 to prevent further harm. He followed this advice on May 1, 1996 at a press conference.

After retiring from his career, Lindros worked in television in the Toronto area and hosted numerous ice hockey-themed television productions. On February 18, 2001, he was seriously but not fatally injured as a passenger in a snowmobile accident . The drunk snowmobile driver had driven the vehicle into a rocky stretch of shore on frozen Crane Lake , about three hours from Toronto. As a result, he later had to answer in court, as did Lindros, who had driven another snowmobile before the accident without a license.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1991/92	St. Michael's Buzzers	MetJHL		34	21st	21st	42	210		6th	5	5	10	63
1992/93	Team Canada	Intl.		11	1	6th	7th	33
	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		31	11	11	22nd	162		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Team Canada	Intl.		44	7th	7th	14th	118
	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		15th	4th	6th	10	94		3	0	0	0	18th
1994/95	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		26th	24	23	47	63		-	-	-	-	-
	New York Islanders	NHL		33	1	3	4th	100		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	New York Islanders	NHL		18th	1	2	3	47		-	-	-	-	-
MetJHL total				34	21st	21st	42	210		6th	5	5	10	63
OHL total				72	39	40	79	319		3	0	0	0	18th
International overall				55	8th	13	21st	151
NHL overall				51	2	5	7th	147		-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ query.nytimes.com, Brett Lindros Sent Down
2. ↑ query.nytimes.com, Brett Lindros Calls It Quits
3. ↑ cbc.ca, Brett Lindros seriously injured in snowmobile accident
4. ↑ cbc.ca, Brett Lindros faces charges for snowmobile crash

Web links

• Brett Lindros at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Brett Lindros at eliteprospects.com (English)