Big Phil
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Eric Lindros - I didn't like the things he did while he was playing, such as the Soo situation in the OHL and then the carbon copy happening with Quebec in the NHL. But once he got on the ice his play made up for those issues. He was fun to watch, entertaining and a rarity that I don't we ever saw prior or since. The Philly situation soured his reputation a bit more (even if Clarke was at fault too) and what he did in the NHL outside of a Philly uniform we all prefer to forget. Many of us want to remember him as never playing after Stevens' big hit. So as a player, I liked him. But since then? In the last few days he made waves by talking about how he thinks the NHL should "take hitting out of the game" because he got concussions and he feels the best way to prevent them is by doing this. Granted, if he had his head up neither one of Stevens, Kasparaitis or Gill would have concussed him. But here is a guy who made a living from the big hit. Hockey has lost its intensity but this guy would like nothing more than to turn this into the WNHL?
Ken Dryden - Great goalie, deserving HHOFer. A legend. I just thought he drove me nuts outside of the ice. I sort of had to like him as a Leafs exec in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and even though he was as boring as watching paint dry in an interview and sometimes talked as if he was reading a children's book I could live with that, even if it annoyed me. Once he started parroting Lindros' "no hitting" comment in the NHL is when he just took it to another level. Leave the game alone Ken..........Eric!
Jacques Lemaire - Again, another deserving HHOFer. But as a coach he was a drain on the game. Drove Lafleur into early retirement and even if it might have happened anyway he helped turn hockey in the mid 1990s into a slow crawl. Even the day he got hired with Minnesota I figured there couldn't have been a worse coach to start a franchise out with.
Glenn Healy - I was neither here nor there with Healy as a goalie, but as an analyst/colour commentator he has the personality of a damp washclosh. He's a bore. Doesn't have a voice for hockey, still has that nerdy personality that doesn't translate into TV very well and especially hockey, and is smug without being entertaining.
Ken Dryden - Great goalie, deserving HHOFer. A legend. I just thought he drove me nuts outside of the ice. I sort of had to like him as a Leafs exec in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and even though he was as boring as watching paint dry in an interview and sometimes talked as if he was reading a children's book I could live with that, even if it annoyed me. Once he started parroting Lindros' "no hitting" comment in the NHL is when he just took it to another level. Leave the game alone Ken..........Eric!
Jacques Lemaire - Again, another deserving HHOFer. But as a coach he was a drain on the game. Drove Lafleur into early retirement and even if it might have happened anyway he helped turn hockey in the mid 1990s into a slow crawl. Even the day he got hired with Minnesota I figured there couldn't have been a worse coach to start a franchise out with.
Glenn Healy - I was neither here nor there with Healy as a goalie, but as an analyst/colour commentator he has the personality of a damp washclosh. He's a bore. Doesn't have a voice for hockey, still has that nerdy personality that doesn't translate into TV very well and especially hockey, and is smug without being entertaining.