Confirmed with Link: Eric Lindros Elected Into HHoF

[PEI Flyers Fan]

Very deserving for #88. Today's warm up is going to be really cool.

 

[TheTaekster]

I truly believe no one will ever don that number again in the orange and black. If we'd landed Kane, I wonder what that conversation would have been like. Smh bettman

Edit: unless Burns wants to come here, in which case, he can just he the Big B. Patty Kane is a bad guy boyilltellya

 

[Hiesenberg]

It's unofficially retired, listening to the SOP podcast, Tom Foti guesses it'll be done soon, Big E is in the HOF, nobody should ever don that number again.

 

[dingbathero]

Beast player.

Love that he is finally in. Such dominance!
Well deserved, too bad injuries and his family got the best of him during his later years in Flyers uniform!

 

[sa cyred]

According to LeBrun, Homer back in 2012 asked Lindros to come out of retirement, Lindros didn't know if he was serious lol

 

[Appleyard]

According to LeBrun, Homer back in 2012 asked Lindros to come out of retirement, Lindros didn't know if he was serious lol

Yeh, apparently after the Alumni game. (he had practiced with Flyers like twice that year too... I remember Hartnell saying it was unreal how good he still was and he thought he could still play at NHL level.)

 

[Bob Clarke Fan Club]

I watched one of the practises from a cam in the ACC after a friend told me Lindros was on the ice. He was directly beside Jagr taking shots and he was massive.

 

[TheTaekster]

We would have won the cup.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

http://www.tsn.ca/flyers-offered-lindros-a-comeback-in-2012-1.606040

“Yeah, I did place a call to Eric in 2012 to see whether he would consider coming back,” Flyers president Paul Holmgren said Thursday. “He looked that good at the outdoor alumni game. I thought he could help our team.”

Holmgren wasn’t exactly sure on the timing of the offer, but it was definitely after the Flyers-Rangers alumni game at Citizens Bank Park on December 31, 2011.

It didn’t seem like an outlandish idea. Part of Holmgren’s thinking came from watching Jaromir Jagr, who is one year older than Lindros, rack up 54 points that season on a line with Claude Giroux and Scott Hartnell after a three-year hiatus in Russia’s KHL.

“I told him ‘You wouldn’t have to be the guy here. We have Claude, he is our guy,’” Holmgren said. “I figured even if he was a power play guy, stood in front of the net, played 10 or 12 minutes a game, that he could still be a significant factor.”

Holmgren, then the Flyers’ GM, told Lindros he would have a month or two to get in shape. The plan was for Lindros to be in the Flyers’ lineup for the last chunk of the regular season, followed by the playoffs. The Flyers knocked off the Pittsburgh Penguins in an epic first-round series that spring.

 

[Rebels57]

Lmfao Homer was losing it

 

[GKJ]

It just goes to show you how completely brainless Paul Holmgren truly was. The successes the team had were very obviously in spite of him.

 

[Phileeguy]

Thank whatever god(s) you believe in that Holmgren doesn't have the keys anymore.

 

[Poignant Discussion*]

It's unofficially retired, listening to the SOP podcast, Tom Foti guesses it'll be done soon, Big E is in the HOF, nobody should ever don that number again.

Agreed, noone has the balls to wear 88 in Philly. Would be a middle finger to Lindros Flyers legacy.

Very pleased he finally made the HOF, incredibly deserving

 

[GKJ]

Agreed, noone has the balls to wear 88 in Philly. Would be a middle finger to Lindros Flyers legacy.

Very pleased he finally made the HOF, incredibly deserving

they'll probably do it next year since it'll be the 20th anniversary of being eastern conference champions

 

[Rich Nixon]

Any pictures of the army of 88s?

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

That is the one shot I have seen:

The jersey up close:

 

[Bruinaura]

I just watched a video of the legion of doom torching Montreal 9-5 back in 1997. Lindros was unreal, and LeClair had four goals, which as I recall was not unusual for him against that team.

Holy smokes that line was fun to watch. Glad Lindros made it to the hall. He was one of a kind.