Eric Lindros

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 2016
Eric Lindros
Date of birth February 28, 1973
place of birth London , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The Big E, Easy E, EL88, The "E Train", The Next One
size 193 cm
Weight 109 kg
position center
number # 88
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 1st lap, 1st position
Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1988-1989 St. Michael's Buzzers
1989 Detroit Compuware Ambassadors
1989-1992 Oshawa Generals
1992-2001 Philadelphia Flyers
2001-2004 New York Rangers
2005-2006 Toronto Maple Leafs
2006-2007 Dallas Stars

Eric Bryan Lindros (born February 28, 1973 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 813 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , New York Rangers , Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars in the course of his playing career between 1989 and 2007 of the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Lindros, who embodied the power forward player type, spent most of his career in Philadelphia, where his jersey number 88 has been on since January 2018is locked . In addition, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016.

Career

Lindros began his career with the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League , where he played from 1990 to 1992. Lindros, already a star in his youth, 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 Lindros, who also played ice hockey .

In the Ontario Hockey League he was first from the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds was drafted, but he refused to play for the club before the draft. The owner of the greyhounds, the NHL legend Phil Esposito , drafted it regardless, because he was speculating on being able to sell the team at a higher price. After Lindros' refusal, he switched to the Oshawa Generals as part of a barter. When the two teams competed against each other, some of the greyhounds players wore black armbands as a sign of their protest against Lindros' changing posse.

A similar situation in the draft arose when Lindros was drawn as number 1 in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by the Nordiques de Québec . Lindros strictly refused to move to the Nordiques and instead played the following season for the Oshawa Generals, with whom he had won both the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the Memorial Cup in 1990 , and for the Canadian national team , with which he was temporarily captain . Eventually he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers , for whom he then played from 1992 to 2000, again mostly as their captain. In return, Peter Forsberg , Ron Hextall , Chris Simon , Mike Ricci , Kerry Huffman and Steve Duchesne moved from the Flyers to the Nordiques, who also received drawing rights in the draft and a cash payment. The Nordiques team was sold to Colorado in 1995 and advanced to become a top team under the name Colorado Avalanche , winning the Stanley Cup twice, among others. The Lindros exchange is the main reason for this.

In the 1992/93 season , Lindros was the highest-paid player in the NHL with a salary of around $ 3.5 million.

Lindros' strengths were his physique - with a height of 1.93 meters he weighed well over 100 kg - and his aggressive style of play, which he combined with excellent technique. However, a decline in its effectiveness has been observed in the statistics over the past few years, which was mostly attributed to Lindros' numerous injuries, including several concussions . In any case, he could never do justice to the attribute "The Next One" as the next Canadian megastar, alluding to "The Great One" ( Wayne Gretzky ) and "The Magnificent One" ( Mario Lemieux ).

In the 1994/95 NHL season shortened because of the lockout , he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player . Disappointing, however, was the 1997 Stanley Cup final , in which his Philadelphia Flyers were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings 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 final game when his team were 2-0 down.

In the 1999/2000 season , the always tense relationship with Bobby Clarke , the general manager of the Flyers, escalated . During an April game for the Nashville Predators , Lindros suffered an injury that was diagnosed as a rib injury by the Flyers medical department. The following night Keith Jones , a Flyers player and Lindros' roommate, found him pale and lying in the bathtub with a high fever. A collapsed lung was found in the hospital. Lindros' parents, who had previously often appeared loudly for their son in public, among other things when it came to who Clarke should play with Eric Lindros, the team doctors described as botchers and accused them of wanting to kill their son.

Lindros returned to the team in the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals, the semi-finals of the Stanley Cup, but was no longer captain. In the second game, he suffered another concussion from a hard check by Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils ; the Flyers lost this game and with it the series. At the end of the season, his contract with the Flyers also expired and Lindros refused to sign a new one. Instead, he wanted to be transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs , but the Flyers, who, according to the NHL regulations, still owned the rights to him even without a contract, refused. As a consequence, Lindros did not play the entire 2000/01 season until he was finally given up by the Flyers to the New York Rangers in 2001. According to many observers, this was not without a certain irony, as it was the Rangers who had tried ten years earlier, when Lindros did not want to play for the Quebec Nordiques, together with the Flyers to sign him. At the time, the Rangers felt they had been treated very unfairly when Lindros moved to Philadelphia.

In the three following seasons he ran for the Rangers. In 2004 he suffered the eighth concussion of his career. Although he was able to resume training, two doctors advised him to end his career. After the end of the 2003/04 season , his contract with the Rangers ran out, the following season fell out because of the lockout.

After the lockout ended, Lindros signed a comparatively low-end one-year contract worth $ 1.55 million with his dream club, the Toronto Maple Leafs . But here too he was tormented by injuries in the 2005/06 season . In the end, there were 22 points in 33 games.

For the 2006/07 season , Lindros moved to the Dallas Stars , where he was also awarded a $ 1.5 million contract. Lindros was plagued by injuries again, so that his contract was not extended by the stars in summer 2007. As a result, Lindros considered his retirement from active ice hockey in July 2007, but made no final decision until November 9, before he announced his retirement after 16 years and 760 games in the NHL for health reasons at a press conference. He is currently involved in the restructuring of the National Hockey League Players' Association .

In 2016 Lindros was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . In addition , the Philadelphia Flyers blocked his jersey number 88 in January 2018.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1988/89 St. Michael's Buzzers OPJHL 37 24 43 67 193 27 23 25th 48 155
1988/89 Hockey Canada International 2 1 0 1 0
1989/90 Detroit Compuware Ambassadors NEAR 14th 23 29 52 123 - - - - -
1989/90 Oshawa Generals OHL 25th 17th 19th 36 61 17th 18th 18th 36 76
1989/90 Hockey Canada International 3 1 0 1 4th
1990/91 Oshawa Generals OHL 57 71 78 149 189 16 18th 20th 38 93
1991/92 Oshawa Generals OHL 13 9 22nd 31 54 - - - - -
1991/92 Hockey Canada International 24 19th 16 35 34
1992/93 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 61 41 34 75 147 - - - - -
1993/94 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 65 44 53 97 103 - - - - -
1994/95 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 46 29 41 70 60 12 4th 11 15th 18th
1995/96 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 73 47 68 115 163 12 6th 6th 12 43
1996/97 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 52 32 47 79 136 19th 12 14th 26th 40
1997/98 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 63 30th 41 71 134 5 1 2 3 17th
1998/99 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 71 40 53 93 120 - - - - -
1999/00 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 55 27 32 59 83 2 1 0 1 0
2000/01 without a contract not played due to contractual dispute and concussion
2001/02 New York Rangers NHL 72 37 36 73 138 - - - - -
2002/03 New York Rangers NHL 81 19th 34 53 141 - - - - -
2003/04 New York Rangers NHL 39 10 22nd 32 60 - - - - -
2004/05 without a contract not played because of lockout
2005/06 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 33 11 11 22nd 43 - - - - -
2006/07 Dallas Stars NHL 49 5 21st 26th 70 3 0 0 0 4th
OPJHL total 37 24 43 67 193 27 23 25th 48 155
NAHL total 14th 23 29 52 123 - - - - -
OHL total 95 97 119 216 304 33 36 38 74 169
NHL overall 760 372 493 865 1398 53 24 33 57 122

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1990 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 4th 0 4th 14th
1991 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 6th 11 17th 6th
1991 Canada Canada Cup 1st place, gold 8th 3 2 5 8th
1992 Canada June World Cup 6th place 7th 2 8th 10 12
1992 Canada Olympia 2nd place, silver 8th 5 6th 11 5
1993 Canada WM 4th Place 8th 11 6th 17th 10
1996 Canada World cup 2nd place 8th 3 3 6th 10
1998 Canada Olympia 4th Place 6th 2 3 5 2
2002 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 1 0 1 8th
Juniors overall 21st 12 19th 31 32
Men overall 44 25th 20th 45 43

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Eric Lindros  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time for the Next Hockey Nickname , on proicehockey.about.com, news from December 18, 2005 (English article)
  2. ^ Klaus Zaugg: Ice Hockey 94 , Habegger Verlag, ISBN 3-85723-344-3 , p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Lindros, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindros, Eric Bryan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH London , Ontario, Canada