Northern Dancer
The future ain't what it used to be.
Because the NHL board of governors set the expansion rules, they said that San Jose could not have 1st pick. They felt it was better to give Quebec - a team that had struggled for a long time - the first pick than to a team that just started. They were protecting their own.
Lindros was a complete a$$. He didn't want to go to a "small" Canadian city and he didn't want to play on a last place team. Karma got him in the end.
See my answer above, your conspiracy theory about expansion teams is wrong. Why did Tampa Bay and Ottawa draft 1st and 2nd over-all the very next year ???????
And since Lindros was a complete a$$, I guess you feel the same about Bryan Berard, Craig Simpson, Lanny McDonald, Chris Pronger (in Junior and NHL), Mike Peca, Yashin etc. etc. the list is very long of players who refused to play for teams that owned their contracts. Go back to the WHA days and the list includes Hull, Sanderson, Mahovolich, Parent etc. and you could even argue Wayne Gretzky and all the baby bulls who broke their CHL contracts to play pro early.
It baffles me why Lindros gets crucified for doing the same things that many other players of also done.
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