TWICE！
It was such a massive deal the Nords liked so much, they made it twice.
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My grandma used to call him “little Eric” when she baby sat the Lindros kids. I did a double take when I realized who she was talking about 😀
As an Avs fan, every element of this video is pleasing. Especially since Forsberg wasn’t on the initial trade list. It’s crazy when you see GM’s give up the farm for one guy as it usually works out much better for the team getting the haul.
Sad to say without that trade happening, Colorado doesn’t get Roy, Forsberg or Ricci when it comes time to hoist the Cup in 96. I believe Chris Simon was apart of those Future Considerations that Quebec got in return who was also apart of that 96 Cup winning team
As a (former?) Avs fan, this trade is one the best in history. Any Flyers fan that has looked into what players you traded away or didn’t draft over the years overall? Heart attack invoking when you put it all together.
Lindros didn’t want to sign with Quebec because Marcel Aubut, during a visit with the family before the draft, insulted Lindros’ mother in French not realizing she spoke the language and understood him. Can’t blame him – I know I wouldn’t have played for an owner like that, either. Also, combine that with the fact that the Nordiques had the #1 pick in three drafts in a row.
Lindros was always great to the neighborhood kids when he was a Flyer. Playing roller hockey and foot hockey in front of his house. Good guy to everyone at MSG when he was a player as well. Very sad he had those concussions.
It’s funny how history repeats itself. Duchene, much like Lindros didn’t want to play for a bad team and yet both times they were wrong and the Avs ended up better after they left.
I remember being in Lindros’ camp at that draft. I can’t remember specifics, to be honest, but I had a distinct dislike for both Aubut and Page, I think the team under performed, I don’t think their player development with lower picks (the top picks any of us could have made they were no brainers) or something along those lines. The irony is that in avoiding bad management at the draft, he ended up with Bobby Clark. Out of the frying pan….
Enjoyed watching this. I remember the Lindros affair very well. I didn’t know what the Rangers had offered. Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make.
Two years earlier in the NFL, a similar thing occurred when the Dallas Cowboys traded Herschel Walker to Minnesota (details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker_trade)
So since then, the smart money says, “If you have a choice between having one great player or a bunch of draft picks, go with the draft picks.”
Roy getting frustrated after “that game” was the final puzzle piece but The Lindros Trade was central to QBC/COL’s dominance afterward.
It’s not like the Flyers suffered, either as Lindros delivered. 85 goals in 126 games his first two seasons, aged 19/20?
But injuries already were hampering future success. Only once did he play 80 or more games, and that was w/ NY (53 pts, aged 29)
865 pts in 790 games, no Cup though. To put his career in perspective, Naslund (same draft) had 869 pts…in 357 more games.
I think the Nordiques had to draft Lindros, even knowing he wouldn’t play. The bounty for trading him made it worth the risk. As it turned out the Nordiques/Avalanche easily won that deal in the long term.
Lindros must’ve been gutted Toronto had traded the pick that would’ve made him a Leaf. Rangers would’ve been trading away a cup right there.
Even though trading Amonte to CHI could look like a mistake, Matteau was part of that return. Lindros not going to NYR ended up working out for the better.
As an Avs fan, I can speculate that this moment lead to the creation of the colorado avalanche. Maybe if lindros stayed with Quebec, that things would’ve worked out differently? Thank you Eric!!
I’d take Forsberg everyday and twice on game day.
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I loved Lindros. His Jersey was the first I owned. Every year my former boss gets a signed photo of Lindros, frames it, and gives it to me for Christmas.
Steven Dangle made a trade tree video on this trade. There are still some active pieces of this happening today. And it’s incredible what the Avs were able to do after this trade.
This content is how I discovered the channel (the Gretzky to Vancouver video) and stayed for everything else. Brilliant stuff. I’d forgotten about the Rangers proposal to the Flyers.