It is expected that Eric “Next One” Lindros will announce his retirement from hockey tomorrow. Once dubbed “Next One” because his incredible ice skills were to inevitably unseat Wayne Gretzky’s run as the “Great One”, Lindros has finally succumb to the continual bombardment on his cranium by ice, elbows, cross-checks, and more ice. Lindros has officially suffered a whopping eight career concussions during his NHL career, although this conflicts with his brain, which swears the count is more like 87.
Some details on the Lindros career,
Lindros scored 372 goals and had 865 points in 760 games for Philadelphia, Toronto, the New York Rangers and Dallas.
He won the Hart Trophy in 1995 and was part of the Canadian Olympic team that won gold in 2002, but he also battled injuries throughout his career. He missed an entire season with a concussion and only averaged 58 games a season when he did play. He never managed to play a full season, and only came close in 2002-03 while with the Rangers.
Lindros suffered eight concussions in his career, including one that forced him to sit out the entire 2000-01 campaign after he was levelled by New Jersey’s Scott Stevens during a playoff game the season before. [LINK TO STORY]
Thank God. If this dude hit the ice one more time, I might boycott watching hockey forever! I know, frightening to all those outlets that still carry hockey and have set lofty ratings goals. I figure if I stopped watching, hockey’s 0.0001 rating might drop to an all-time low 0.00001….thereby risking the league’s future existence on the TV medium altogether…..but I’m sure The WB executives would love to add such strong programming to their stellar line-up, so not to fret you five dudes in northern Minnesota.
