Eric Lindros will have to sleep in the bed him and his family made

Eric Lindros on his production of 865 points in only 760 games and 1.1 points a game (15TH best of non-active players) should be in the Hockey Hall of Famebut his refusal to go to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the OHL when they drafted him and Ex- NHLer Phil Esposito who was apart owner of the greyhounds and he ended up being traded to the Oshawa Generals. Of course that was not the only refusal he and is family made as they decided not report to the Quebec Nordiques when he was drafted No. 1 overall in the 1991 NHL entry draft and work out for the Nordiques as they got Peter Forsberg and Mark Ricci who were a couple of the center pieces to the Avalanche (former Nordiques) winning the Stanly Cup in their first season in Colorado. In the end karma in the form of Darius Kasparaitis got him as he caught Eric in '98 and sidelined for 18 games with a concussion and would become the reason that he only played 760 games or just over 9 NHL seasons even though he played from 1992-93 season to the 2006-07 season which totals 13 seasons in the NHL (including the '04-'05 lockout and the 2000-01 contract dispute cost him two seasons). He is not the only Lindros having concussions end their career early as younger brother Brett had his NHL career ended very quicly by concussion as he played only parts of two seasons with the Islanders after being drafted in '94 but by the end of the '95-'96 season he had retired and even little sis Robin Lindros even had her hockey career ended by concussions. Eric was a very good player who ended up sharing the heart trophy in the strike shortened season in '94-'95 and a first-team all-star in '94-'95 and a second team all-star in '95-\96 to playing in 7 all-star games in his short career. If he had not bullied hockey to get his way (his parents did it too) then he would be a hall of famer like Cam Nelly (694 points in 726 games) Tom Mehegan