This is why Eric Lindros is going to the Hockey Hall of Fame

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Check out some of the best plays, dominant performances, and remarkable stats surrounding the Big "E" Eric Lindros and his journey to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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@joaquingonzalo1945 8 лет назад

Big E, thanks for all the action in the 90s NHL, best years imo. The the best combination of mean and skills ever seen in the NHL. I learned to love the Flyers thanks to you. Im from Sweden

@steve5976 2 года назад

I think big e has some Swedish ancestry, if that’s true he’s a mix of the two best countries for hockey players , Canada and Sweden !!! I’ll draft a Canadian or a swede any day ! He was truly the best ever , I still have not seen anyone close to Mario lemieux and Eric lindros live that could completely dominate a game like they could !!! Both were literally unstoppable legally ,,,

@Michael-fw5ef 4 года назад

5th fatest to 500 points all-time 19th best PPG avg all-time And he played in the neutral-zone trap, clutch and grab decade that kept points to a minimum. Imagine if Lindros played in the 1980s or in this current NHL period?

@bradyryall6105 4 года назад

Neutral zone trap era was the late 1990s and first half of the 2000s. Lindros got in a few good years before then.

@RichieCavsRetrocade 5 месяцев назад

@@bradyryall6105Yeah but before that in the early 90s there was still obstruction, hooking and clutching and grabbing of any player that was too fast or too big

@gary6754 7 лет назад

if played during todays game he would completely dominate

@michaelchen1838 3 года назад

Why cuz he wouldn’t get blasted at the blue line cuz he never learned how to keep his head up while skating?

@smorgdonkey Год назад

@@michaelchen1838 one negative. One. No other drawbacks to his entire game. Head shots should have been illegal back then too.

@Krokodilius 7 лет назад

note: mark recchi has 3 cups, 1600 points and never got a sniff at the hall of fame.

@bghlee 6 лет назад

You're absolutely right. Recchi should easily be in the HOF. He was a winner in so many ways and on so many teams. I wish I could be a voter on the HOF board to right all the wrongs. But Lindros deserves to be in for sure. You can hate him for what he did to the Nordiques, but there's no denying his combination of talent, size, skill and accomplishments. HOF means you contributed to the game of hockey. And he did by inadvertently building a winner out of Colorado, but also the good times before he made headlines in the NHL (becoming the youngest to join Team Canada as a CHL player with the likes of Gretzky and Lemieux!). But yes..Recchi deserves to be in too no question.

@jdbankshot 6 лет назад

chill dude, he'll be there soon.

@MikeSerota 6 лет назад

He should have.

@johnziegelbauer4999 5 лет назад

Paul Henderson.....

@dnasty312 3 года назад

Incorrect. Not first ballot but Recchi is in and very well deserved 🏆🏆🏆

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

Lindros was the most dominant player of the 90s. No other player had his accolades or talents. None. Name one that had EVERYTHING he had. And if you want to disagree with wayne gretzky on a 1996 interview stating lindros was the most dominant player of his time, your simply put, a joke.

@QuestionEverything562 4 года назад

I'm born in 1990, I was a Leafs fan as a kid. I especially remember the 1998-99 season when my Leafs beat the Flyers in the 1st round of the playoffs. We were lucky to get past the Flyers simply because this monstrous player was injured for the season after a game vs. Nashville earlier in the season. We would have had no one to matchup with the Big E. I'm sort of glad we don't see physical phenomenons like him much because it would just be too unfair. He's truly once in a century hockey body type. No doubt in my mind that Eric Lindros would dominate today's league, only a Seth Jones or Dustin Byfuglien could physically matchup with him, but Lindros has the speed and skill to overcome their size.

@NYFanatic 4 года назад

Just imagine if he was healthy. I hated him since I root for the Islanders, but given the fact that the defenses got tougher and the Devils had the trap style game going, he would've accomplished a lot more if the live puck era lasted another 10 years.

@steve5976 2 года назад

Greatest ever !! Mario lemieux and Eric lindros were the show . To this day I haven’t seen a player dominate an entire game like lemieux in 80s, and lindros in 90s, both were unstoppable legally. They would bear hug lemieux and grab him, lindros they just decapitated , both were absolutely the two most single handledly dominate for their eras , Penguins got lemieux some help eventually , with lindros he never had a number 1 defenseman and ZERO snipers and no goalie ,,,,lemieux had Kevin stevens as a power wing and lindros had leclair as a power wing ,,,both had recchi for a brief span ,,,,

@88BigEtrain 7 лет назад

The most complete and exciting power forward, which in my book means the greatest hockey player of all time. There will never have been a player of his caliber. Once in a human history kind of a player. He possessed no weaknesses, just a perfect, perfect player. No one was able to wake up a crowd in the NHL buildings the way my boy Eric could. He could not be stopped in a legitimate way, which meant that cowards led by a piece of garbage Scott Stevens had to use disgusting methods to accomplish so. On top of it all, The BigE wore no visor, which was something that I had always immensely admired about him. The good old times. The greatest hockey had been played in 1990's, when everything was rightfully allowed and excitement had never been bigger. Hard hitting, fighting, great rivalries, hardly any visors and the NHL' s maintenance and upholding all the rules, which made it the best League in the world, helped make it the fantastic product, it then was. It is all gone now.

@greggoldman3095 5 лет назад

LINDROS SUCKED

@roberthuot7887 2 года назад

This fella was a tank. Get the hell out of his way or you were going down.

@OneEyedKeys 4 года назад

Not one of the 'Greatest', but talent-wise, he was one of the best who ever played, at prime. I'd take a prime healthy Lindros on my roster in any era for a single game playoff over almost any other player who ever played the game.

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

Well said.

@MikeSerota 6 лет назад

I believe Lindros was the leading scorer in the 1997 playoffs. He accomplished just about every important milestone except the Stanley Cup. He's like the Dan Marino of hockey but still deserves to be in the hockey hall of fame.

@wanderer34 3 года назад

Only difference being that Marino happened to have a very long career with the Dolphins while Lindros never had a fully healthy season in his career due to the front office and cheap shots by different players and you can add the medical staff which misdiagnosed him in 1998.

@MikeSerota 3 года назад

@@wanderer34 yeah.. that's a shame..

@johnfrank1574 7 лет назад

Hasn't been another player since that put together the entire skill set the way Lindros did.

@chrisscorpio5651 6 лет назад

Ovechkin. Plus he never got knocked out, scores more goals, gets more hits, and skates with his head up.

@greggoldman3095 6 лет назад

Lindros was overrated

@mrob611 5 лет назад

@@greggoldman3095 He wasn't overrated, he just was prone to concussions and injury. He was a great all around player.

@source9264 4 года назад

@@chrisscorpio5651 true but theres only tom wilson that plays 90s hockey anymore and hes in the same team. In 90s they went for head all the time. Today its so much cleaner hockey its also easier to stay good but in general i agree that ovie would dominate even in 90s grit hook slash headshot hockey

@vicdamon3551 3 года назад

Jamie Benn gave me some lindros vibes this last playoffs. Never seen him play mean before the 2020 playoffs consistently the way he did

@younglobwedge 5 лет назад

75 point rookie season.

@QuestionEverything562 4 года назад

In only 61 games too.

@EpicMetalTime 3 года назад

My favorite player during the 90s along with Forsberg

@elvisisalive2716 4 года назад

Still a joke, makes the HOF even more of a disgusting old boys club to real fans. Still no Doug Wilson, but stupid Lindros got in..

@mrbig4532 2 года назад

He had all of the talents that we like in Philadelphia and you will never get me to bad mouth Bobby Clarke because it’s against the law in the city limits of Philadelphia with a punishment of 3 years in jail and a felony on your record but having said that I believe Bobby Clarke was way to late on understanding that the dump and chase , physically overwhelming the other team , and scare tactics that worked when he was a player with a lot of success were being replaced with super fast highly skilled offensive minded players like the USSR produced all those years when they killed almost all their opponents. If they would of got some of those faster players that could put a lot of shots on goal I believe they would of won several cups and his career would of lasted another 5 years .

@KeyoRacing 8 лет назад

its really too bad he never got a ring

@dvon1097 7 лет назад

Keith Yo I consider him the Charles barkley of the NHL. He was great for a decade, has an mvp award, multiple all stars, has a gold medal and fell short in the finals to the most dominat team of that decade

@KeyoRacing 7 лет назад

dvon1097 i wasn't blaming him... he WAS the Flyers! without him they had nothing and have had nothing since they fucked up with him. Don't think we'll see a player in Philadelphia like him any time soon.

@dvon1097 7 лет назад

Keith Yo U guys got Giroux who is a super star and Voracek is a stud

@KeyoRacing 7 лет назад

dvon1097 but not a lindros.

@j-fpilote1576 5 лет назад

"Lindros deserves to be a HOFer under one condition: if on his way to the podium, he can get passed both Darius Kasparaitis and Scott Stevens." Whoever said that, right on the money...

@adjy235 5 лет назад

hes in you aren't let it go you jealous idiot

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

He's destroyed both said players on.numerous occasions. Can't help the guy and his head down a few times. either way to compare Steven's or kaspartitis although amazing players in they're OWN respect, to.lindros, is a JOKE.

@samuraijim9243 3 года назад

Lindros was at times the best player in the NHL. Not many players can make that claim. He further played in the clutch and grab and trap era. Many players put up offense but Lindros was a complete player with dominating physical play.

@slauzon01 2 года назад

Forsberg was another dandy.

@okbluejays2232 9 месяцев назад

Scott stevens is a coward

@Scionofgreyhaven 8 лет назад

His resume isn't all that impressive compared to others...but I agree he was a special player

@SIoyvenheaven1T800m101 7 лет назад

Better than Mats Sundin.

@Chalk89 7 лет назад

His resume is condensed and filled with gaps because of injuries. To compare him to a player such as a Steve Yzerman or others who avoided serious injury is irresponsible and not an accurate depiction. Eric Lindros, when healthy, and we know that's a big if, was one of the most dominant players in the history of the league. He single-handedly dominated during a time where players were not overly protected and shielded from physical play. There's only a few players who can compare to him.

@SIoyvenheaven1T800m101 7 лет назад

Charles Kruzits Agreed, he was the best player in the game during the mid-to-late 90's.

@greggoldman3095 5 лет назад

@@SIoyvenheaven1T800m101 no he wasn't

@SIoyvenheaven1T800m101 5 лет назад

Greg Goldman Yeah he was.

@OneEyedKeys 7 лет назад

Unique talent, and generational, sure. Entirely mismanaged by his parents and Bobby Clarke. Too bad he didn't just suck it up and play in Quebec. That the team was improving under Joe Sakic and Mats Sundin at the time. Who knows what trades or personal moves would have happened after, but controversy distracted him from hockey. If he just wouls have played with more on ice focus, he had the potential to be 10 ten all time, maybe even higher.

@scarbourgeoisie 4 года назад

Imagine a team with Sakic, Sundin and Lindros (and Roy). They would have ruled hockey for a decade or more.

@yeltsin6817 2 года назад

I remember watching him and man it seemed so unfair to the other players. He seemed like a man amongst little boys. I’m my opinion the first really big guy with dominating skill.

@craggbartbartel1307 3 года назад

I watched this man score 4 goals against the Leafs in maple leaf gardens during the leigon of doom era... it is the most impressive and dominant hockey game I have ever watched anyone play to this day.

@contacter 7 лет назад

He had a specially shaped face, especially his chin and his nose/nostrils

@rynob777 7 лет назад

As a Quebec fan, and a fan of hockey in general, I do not think lindos should have made it in, citing his inability to keep his head up with the puck, which ultimately led to numerous concussions. I also think lindros should have been exempt from hall of fame consideration entirely because of his childish decision to not play in Quebec. Ultimately just not a good player to have in the hall of fame while there are many more players with better talent, along with pride to play on whichever team they had to play on.

@hateUmankind 7 лет назад

Agree with you Eric Lindros didn't play will & was over pay thinking he was going to be the next Wayne Gretzky is joke & peter Forsberg need to be the hall of fame he was not over pay was better skill & is best team player & didn't care who he was playing for in the NHL unlike Eric Lindros Douchbag of Hockey

@MrMcGiblets1 7 лет назад

Ryan Babal Quebec's owner Aubut was the real problem, Lindros was smart to stay away from him. He wasn't a slave, everyone else in the US and Canada gets to decide who they work for, why shouldn't an athlete?

@maxrates 7 лет назад

He was young. His parents also may have had something to do with it. It's a shame tho

@jonnygrossman2805 7 лет назад

What did Aubut do?

@bigbear8832 7 лет назад

Ryan Babal Quebec was a dumpster fire of a franchise! It was a lemonade stand at best. Y the time Lindros was to be drafted! They were going to use him as a piece to sell the franchise. Maybe your to young to remember this franchise hemorrhaging money. Trading Mats Sundin another hall of famer! But as in your case sheep usually don't look into fact checking they usually just follow the herd.

@MMGJ10 7 лет назад

Lindros gets in the HOF based more on hype than actual accomplishments... Recchi deserved to be in there long before him IMO. When Lindros was at the top of his game he was a beast, he was pretty special. I get that. But, his peak wasn't really that high, (no cup, no outstanding playoffs, no 100point seasons, no 50 goal seasons. ) And his peak wasn't very long either. He literally fell off the face of the earth.... Orr, Bossy, those guys were friggen legends for 10 years before the wheels came off. Kevin Stevens played like a HOF'er for a good 4+ years. Even set a record for most points by a left wing in a season.. Had better playoffs than Lindros by far, won cups.... Then fell off the face of the earth.. Lindros is closer to Stevens than Lemieux, Orr, Bossy or a guy like Dryden for that matter. Lindros is in the HOF based on what he could've done, NOT on what he actually did.. Hype...

@MMGJ10 7 лет назад

OK, he did have one 100 point season and his 97 playoff run was pretty good. I just don't think he was all that special.

@bghlee 6 лет назад

If Lebron James didn't win any championships, or hit only 28 pts per season instead of 30, but still dominated the rim and still led his team to the NBA Finals 6 times, but then his career was cut short because of a Concussion....would you still consider him a Hall of Fame player? Imagine what I said earlier, ... then add to that Lebron was the most hyped high school player...DOMINATED high school competition...then was asked to join the Olympic Basketball team as a High schooler with the likes of Jordan, Magic and Pippen...but yet his career was cut short and still didn't win any championships..would you still call Lebron a HOFer? That's essentially what Lindros was...the Lebron James of the NHL...a genetic freak that married size, skill, and nastiness and smarts all in one package. He had the body of a truck and size of Lemieux..but Lemieux was NOT a mean hitting machine. He had hands of a small guy...maybe not Gretzky like..but Sundin like. He outscored players of his generation and 4th fastest to reach 400 pts. That's pretty HOF to me. He's a no doubter.

@adjy235 5 лет назад

Let it go...hes in you aren't easy math..peace out, better check your stats again too

@dj62394 4 года назад

Lol someone said “during his time of playing they never saw a more dominant player”. What a joke.

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

You don't understand what they meant. Obviously comparison between him and gretzky and the other greats you cant. His career was short lived. Although gretzky on David Letterman once said that Liberia was the best player in the league. Is gretzky a joke to you?

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

Lindros*

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

I've talked to people who are much older including my high school coach Reggie leetch Stanley cup champion. He said the same.thing. Liberia had EVERYTHING a player wanted. The size, the physicality, the scoring talent, he was all around dominant. You can only name a handful of other players in the entire history of hockey that has what he had. Gretzky was obviously the best and holds over 61 nhl records but even he was limited to a type of a player. Lindros was everything.

@sota_59 8 лет назад

Head up!

@MaverickMustaine 7 лет назад

No sense at all

@99hockeynhl 7 лет назад

your right, you make no sense. he does deserve to be in the hockey hall of fame

@MaverickMustaine 7 лет назад

TheGamingCanadian TGC NOT

@99hockeynhl 7 лет назад

why not? he was good.

@MaverickMustaine 7 лет назад

TheGamingCanadian TGC he was not bad. Just not a HALL OF FAMER...short career, always injured, cry baby...

@99hockeynhl 7 лет назад

he had a lot of points, Ken Dryden only played 8 seasons but he was inducted after 3 years. he was the definition of the best power forward. never cheered for any team he played for but i still agree he one of the best. And crosby seems always injured and no one doubts he's a crybaby, but he's getting in the hall of fame, even if he retired today.

@deitznuts3306 5 лет назад

Why no probert wtf

@viiking88norseman48 7 лет назад

Marty brodeur ruined any chance he had at a cup, him and stevens!

@adjy235 5 лет назад

yeah Im pretty sure it was more than that because he faced Pittsburgh, Detroit Toronto....get your facts right to zip it!

@emmaduncan2991 7 лет назад

In hindsight, I think Lindros would drop to 3rd behind Niedermeyer and Forsberg.

@adjy235 5 лет назад

and you would get off that crack pipe

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

Your simply.wrong. Neither player you named has the qualities of lindros. You will never see another lindros and there was no one better then him in his prime. Even gretzky said in 96 lindros was the best. Miss gretzky a joke to u

@RResidentAlienNN 4 года назад

Is*

@Paul.V 7 лет назад

One of the most over rated hockey players ever. Most clips were of him batting at the puck. Where were all the clips of him skating with his head down before the lights went out?