As epic a trade as we've ever seen in the NHL. Lindros from QUE to PHI for Forsberg, Hextall, Duchesne, Huffman, Ricci, Simon, $15M, 1993 1st rounder (Thibault), 1994 1st rounder (Baumgartner).
Conventional wisdom is the Nords/Lanche won the deal since Foppa got them a Cup, but the Flyers were pretty dominant throughout the 90s thanks to Lindros. I don't think either side would take it back.
30th anniversary of the Lindros trade
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Re: 30th anniversary of the Lindros trade
The Rangers might want it taken back. 
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Re: 30th anniversary of the Lindros trade
The trade tree for the Avs didn't officially end until they let defenseman Brandon Gormley go unqualified in 2016.
I'll never get tired of hearing about this trade. Obviously the Avs benefited wonderfully from it, and I'll freely admit the Flyers did too early on. Maybe if the Flyers were run by someone who wasn't just as hotheaded as Lindros himself, they might have had better success. The marriage between Bobby Clarke and 88 was one that was bound to end badly, and it did.
Lindros remains one of the most talented players I've ever seen. I say that because he had gobs of pure hockey ability, size, and was honestly one of the meanest players I ever watched. But some of his fundamentals were so off it wasn't even funny. I thought I read somewhere he was so much bigger than all the other kids growing up he never had to worry about keeping his head up because he towered over all of them, and that's why he always had his head down when he skated, which led to some, uh, issues in the NHL.
His stint in New York, the team that pined for him from the beginning, was so utterly weird. Started out so badly he had to be switched to RW on a line with Bobby Holik and Matthew Barnaby, and it was BARNABY who was the most productive member of that line IIRC. Next year he finally found his form again...only to get hurt how he always got hurt, getting a high hit to the head he didn't see coming. After that he kinda limped along to a couple other stops and then he was done.
That Legion of Doom line was something though. Leclair was always a player I liked.
All that said about Lindros, I'd argue that Peter Forsberg ended up being a comparable talent. Not QUITE the same upside, but pretty damned close. Unfortunately he was just about as injury prone too.
I'll never get tired of hearing about this trade. Obviously the Avs benefited wonderfully from it, and I'll freely admit the Flyers did too early on. Maybe if the Flyers were run by someone who wasn't just as hotheaded as Lindros himself, they might have had better success. The marriage between Bobby Clarke and 88 was one that was bound to end badly, and it did.
Lindros remains one of the most talented players I've ever seen. I say that because he had gobs of pure hockey ability, size, and was honestly one of the meanest players I ever watched. But some of his fundamentals were so off it wasn't even funny. I thought I read somewhere he was so much bigger than all the other kids growing up he never had to worry about keeping his head up because he towered over all of them, and that's why he always had his head down when he skated, which led to some, uh, issues in the NHL.
His stint in New York, the team that pined for him from the beginning, was so utterly weird. Started out so badly he had to be switched to RW on a line with Bobby Holik and Matthew Barnaby, and it was BARNABY who was the most productive member of that line IIRC. Next year he finally found his form again...only to get hurt how he always got hurt, getting a high hit to the head he didn't see coming. After that he kinda limped along to a couple other stops and then he was done.
That Legion of Doom line was something though. Leclair was always a player I liked.
All that said about Lindros, I'd argue that Peter Forsberg ended up being a comparable talent. Not QUITE the same upside, but pretty damned close. Unfortunately he was just about as injury prone too.