Please try again. On the second day of the adventure, the couple were in a rented canoe in the middle of breathtaking Kejimkujik Lake when a thunderstorm rolled in off the coast. The tension left Lindros' body, and he lifted his paddle out of the water. Her father, Pierre Lamarche, is an exclusively French-speaking, former Molson employee and diehard hockey fan. 2010-11 NHL Preview & Fantasy Hockey Yearbook Single Issue Magazine – January 1, 2010 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions Operating in the NFL's shadow has allowed the NHL to avoid intense public scrutiny on head injuries. The scene was all too familiar, and terrifying, to Lindros and his parents, Bonnie and Carl, who also served as his agent and adviser. The once-hulking Lindros crumpled to the ice in a twisted heap, then remained there in the fetal position for a long time. In a twisted way, that knowledge and the caution it fostered in Eric made him something of an outsider. Since retiring, Lindros has dealt with bouts of anxiety that may be a byproduct of the concussions. "It's nice that those battles are over now for Eric," says Kina. It will also soon become available on Amazon.com , as well as in various newsstands, book stores and grocery stores (or wherever you usually buy your annual copy of The Sports Forecaster magazine). Upon retirement, he donated $5 million to the London (Ontario) Health Sciences Centre for medical research, where he had received treatment for his concussions. Near the end of the season, banged up again with myriad injuries, he caught himself watching the clock during practice, counting down the seconds until he could get the hell off the ice. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Lindros is also here most Wednesday nights, contorting his massive frame through a series of Pilates poses. Comcast is a partner in the NHL Network. Are we freaking nuts? There was a problem loading your book clubs. "Eric is the guy now. It was late last summer, and he and then-fiancée Kina Lamarche had flown to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they turned off their cellphones and motored 1,250 miles around the coast in a 34-foot rented RV they nicknamed Peggy. Is it a form of self-testing, a way to stay sharp? Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2010, Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2010. Other than that, his face is almost exactly as Flyers fans would remember it from his heyday in Philadelphia. "It took time, age and perspective for me to be okay with hockey again. Using past history for individual players, our formula plays the percentages and separates the contenders from the pretenders. Read more about Music Voices. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I'd be driving up the 401 right away.". 1 overall in the 1991 draft. All of this made Lindros a natural choice to grace the cover of our first issue in March 1998, standing, arms folded, just to the right of our motto: NEXT. In an instant, the skies darkened and torrents of rain began filling up the canoe. The Edmonton Oilers will complete the first and begin the second half of their 56-game schedule this week, as they welcome the Ottawa Senators to Rogers Place for three games, Monday (7 pm MT), Wednesday (6 pm MT), and Friday (7 pm MT). Follow The Mag on Twitter (@ESPNmag) and like us on Facebook. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Lindros bowed his head and lifted his stick in the air, saluting the fans. He isolated Lindros from the team, at one point going weeks without speaking to his injured star. Essential magazine for hockey fans and fantasy hockey fanatics. Author of "Noah's Rainbow" (a father's memoir) and "Breaker Boys" (stolen 1925 NFL title). In 1997 he helped the Flyers to their first Stanley Cup Finals in a decade (they were swept by Detroit) and was voted to his third All-Star Game. But at their wedding and again inside the Bell Centre, every time Kina looked back for her dad, she saw the same smiling person by his side, patiently shuffling along next to him. A dozen years ago, when Lindros tried to do that? ", "Not so crazy now, was I?" Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. An acknowledgment of sorts -- an apology, even. "At some point you gotta just say, Screw it, I'm moving on," he says. Lindros scored 41 goals during his first NHL season and won the 1995 Hart Trophy as NHL MVP. Just as our first issue was going to press, Lindros was crossing the blue line in Pittsburgh when he lost the puck in his skates, glanced down for a second and got freight-trained by Penguins defenseman Darius Kasparaitis. Then he paddled them safely back to shore, convulsing with laughter. After a 10-week absence in the spring of 2000, during which he suffered another concussion, Lindros returned to play in the Eastern Conference finals. What role Clarke played in the overture is unclear, but he insisted there were no longer any hard feelings between the two. Lindros says even an inexpensive and noncontroversial improvement like more forgiving Plexiglas took several years to implement. In Game 7, as Lindros skated up the ice trying to pass the puck, Devils defenseman Scott Stevens delivered one of the most famous head shots in hockey history. For a moment, Lindros feared that his decision-making skills had indeed been dulled. As a result, players today will tell you they feel less obligated to hide or downplay a brain injury or postconcussion symptoms -- a mindset that protects them far more than any helmet or rule ever could. By that time, Lindros had suffered almost as much from hockey's machismo mindset as he did from the concussions themselves. "But I think that one of the things everyone knows now, if there's a possibility that you got your bell rung pretty well, it's, 'Hey, we need to take a couple of days and see.' "The athletes are the worst advocates for this crap by not disclosing enough," he says. "He was a big part of the Flyers. A few months after the November 2012 wedding, the groom took Pierre to Montreal for the All-Star Classic at the Bell Centre, a game featuring Lindros and other former NHLers against a team of Habs legends. ". A few weeks before Easter, Lindros and his buddies skate at the community rink for about an hour. In a life-and-death situation, my future wife is quoting Caddyshack? Lindros let the wind and current take the boat. Fans threw pacifiers on the ice. ET on April 12. Kina says the topic of his concussions almost never comes up in their day-to-day lives. Music Haven — Music counts, speaks and matters — Curving your soul’s arch. In ESPN The Magazine's 15 anniversary issue, Mag 15, David Fleming writes about Eric Lindros, who unintentionally became the poster boy for the … he wondered. You will find more information here than is available in any other resource, either in print or on the internet. I hate the idea of that more than anything. We fully expected the Next One to rule hockey and change the future of sports. The media snickered about his manhood and mocked him as a head case. Are you gonna take yourself out? That poster boy s -- ? But the sport is struggling every bit as much with its own epidemic of brain trauma and how to deal with it. Edmonton is fourth in the Nhl recording 9.3 points per game, averaging 3.4 goals and 5.9 assists. Rina Sawayama, a Japanese-born singer who has lived in Britain for 26 years, is among the three contenders for the Rising Star prize at this year's BRIT Awards after she successfully pushed to change eligibility rules. At a time when NHL players were still allowed to play without a helmet if they signed a waiver, the information and concern about concussions was so scarce -- and the topic so taboo -- that Carl had to go to the local library to educate himself about what his kids were dealing with. For a moment, Lindros is transported back to his hometown of London, Ontario, about 120 miles southwest of Toronto, where, before he had even turned 18, he was already being anointed the Next One, as the rightful heir to the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. Like football, hockey is struggling to confront the idea that smaller, legal collisions involving rotational force of the brain -- as well as the buildup of subconcussive hits over a player's career -- can be just as damaging as the big hits everyone seems so focused on. He endures these sessions for one simple reason: They help keep his creaky back limber enough for his twice-weekly games of shinny at a nearby community rink. "Certainly we had our battles, but once he was gone, it was over," says Clarke, who went so far as to lobby for Lindros to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Klára Dán von Neumann deserves to be remembered for her role in coding the early computer ENIAC Last modified on Sat 13 Mar 2021 03.14 EST This month is … The league has also broadened Rule 48, which governs hits above the shoulder, to penalize players who target an opponent's head from any direction. Some call it self-preservation. Believe it or not, the 2020-21 National Hockey League season is already at its midpoint. Quite simply the best hockey preview magazine on the market, year it and year out. For Lindros, the greatest reward is that the very thing that turned hockey purists against him at the time -- the idea that this cocky, aloof, self-centered kid would dare put his long-term health ahead of the needs of his team -- is probably what saved his brain, if not his life. Overall, though, he has no long-term effects associated with his head injuries. Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2010. Nowadays, most hockey fans applaud and defend Penguins star Sidney Crosby for having the guts and perspective to sit as long as he needed to fully recover from a concussion. A few months later, he called it quits. Just then, Kina turned around, lifted the soaked brim of her baseball cap and, through the rain, yelled back to him the classic line from Caddyshack: "Oh, I don't think the heavy stuff's gonna come down for quite a while.". Sharks’ Kane sued by Vegas casino over credits. "But Eric left his mark on the game.". This year's '25th Anniversary' Sports Forecaster hockey magazine (2020-21) edition will be available in early November 2020. 2010-11 NHL Preview & Fantasy Hockey Yearbook, Single Issue Magazine – January 1, 2010. No. "Who wants to admit deficiencies and put that X on your back? "If I had gotten drafted by the Canadiens, are you kidding me? "I just didn't sense any of that burning desire to win in the Nordiques organization," Lindros says. A deal with ESPN is expected to increase the overall value of NHL … For starters, he and Kina, the former president of North America Travelex, a global business payments corporation, shoot pucks back and forth on the finely finished wood floors. ONLY ONCE since his retirement in 2007 has Eric Lindros worried about the damage that a lifetime of hockey may have inflicted upon his brain. As soon as that happened, 
I found the beauty in it again.". ", Lindros became a full-fledged villain, however, when he refused to play for Quebec after the Nordiques selected him No. Lindros says, before catching himself. He was an advocate of putting the red line back in play -- which, he says, would slow down collisions and decrease concussions without affecting the number of goals scored. This is not to say he's moving on; it has never been that simple with Lindros. Responds NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly, who notes that the league uses a centralized tracking system to study and analyze injury trends: "Suffice it to say we are very comfortable with how the league approaches player safety issues in our game -- including boards and glass -- and any perception of delay or indifference should largely be attributed to the historic interference of the NHLPA, including specifically when Eric was there. "That's where we need help, consolidating information to find out what we can do better on this," he says. Lindros, who speaks only about five words of French, got Pierre great seats and gave him a behind-the-scenes tour where, of all things, Pierre marveled at the idea that millionaire players would be given free razors inside the locker room. "Have we come a long way since then?" His pace is so slow, in fact, that it's easy for him to be left behind in a crowd. "Maaaybeee," he says, using a faux nervous tone to elicit a laugh. We have NHL statistics and logos as well as all other leagues including the WHA and minor league. He feels strong and sharp -- and, most of all, fortunate. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Trade rumors will start heating up as that date approaches. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The Sports Forecaster is a division of XML Team Solutions SPORTS FEED SERVICES -- Distribution, Integration, and Hosting ICON SPORTSWIRE -- Dynamic Game Photos FANTASY SPORTS SERVICES -- Online Games and Live Drafts THE SPORTS FORECASTER -- Premium Player Analysis The NHL's annual trade deadline is set for 3 p.m. Lindros glanced at Kina in the front of the boat, then down at the metal-lined canoe underfoot and the metal paddle in his hands. No thanks.". Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. The simple truth is that there may not be a way to wipe out concussions completely in violent contact sports like football and hockey. He also favored one government- and NHL-sanctioned online clearinghouse for all medical information, research and resources on concussions. "He has nothing to gain by saying to everyone: 'Look, you were all wrong; the villain you created in your minds, in so many different ways, that's not who I am.' In other words, the one guy Lindros hoped he'd never run into after shunning the Nordiques would now be sitting across from him at every family get-together, holding a carving knife. And that's what it was for me: survival. Play ESPN.com's Tournament FOREcaster and find out! It was Lindros, unhurried and with a renewed sense of purpose. Because now it's who do they have in the minors to replace you? Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. "Injuries cut his time in the NHL short," says John LeClair, a former linemate in Philly. Looking back, that's one of the moments of his experience that irks Lindros the most and makes him worry about today's nonmarquee players: The pressure to play, the alienation from teammates and the other mind games used to get players back on the ice -- those things worked on him, in large part because he let them. He feels good. The reaction was, shall we say, slightly less enlightened. Has written more than 30 cover stories for SI and ESPN. So what Lindros did was the next best thing: He stood up to hockey's insidious play-through-it culture. Lindros also wanted to widen rinks by five feet on each side to give players more space to maneuver. Connor McDavid recorded a … Serena Williams cruises into Wimbledon final with 6-2, 6-4 win over Julia Goerges. "I'm gonna do my thing and I'm not gonna listen to the noise anymore. Each spring he speaks to medical students at the University of Western Ontario to give them an athlete's perspective on the growing concussion epidemic. In their last matchup on Feb. 25, Edmonton won 3-0. Unswayed by the enmity of an entire province, or pressure from the prime minister himself, Lindros sat out a year and eventually forced the trade of the decade: a six-player, two-draft-pick, $15 million swap with the Flyers. Since he appeared on the cover of our premiere issue in 1998, dressed in all black alongside Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez and Kordell Stewart, Lindros has experienced the kind of pressure, success, scrutiny, injury, vitriol and vindication that few other athletes have. 8:41 PM ET A Las Vegas casino is suing Evander Kane, claiming the San Jose Sharks forward failed to pay back $500,000 in gambling markers given to him in April. That arrived in the summer of 2011, when current Flyers GM Paul Holmgren invited Lindros to play in an alumni event that December at Citizens Bank Park. Lindros has been skating there since he was 10, and the rink is as classically Canadian as it gets, all cinder block and cement, thick, dark wooden roof beams and war-era lime-green tiled floors sliced up by generations of skaters eagerly penguin-walking their way to the ice. Lindros could dazzle with skill and speed every bit as much as Gretzky or Mario Lemieux, but at 6'4", 225 pounds, he was perfectly willing to kick your ass first if so required. In 2007, after stints with the Rangers and Toronto, Lindros was in Dallas, playing right wing for the Stars because he could no longer stomach skating up the middle of the ice. Turns out, though, Pierre didn't stand a chance. The whole thing still nearly blew up in Lindros' face when, inside the Habs' dressing room, a giggling Sergio Momesso, Chris Chelios and Alex Kovalev started giving Pierre a hard time, en français, about letting his daughter marry that Lindros guy. rotowire.com | 02/01/2021 9:41 PM "So it was just a moment there of great appreciation for how fortunate I've been. It's a sh -- y business in that regard.". For maybe the first time in his life, he didn't feel the need to battle tooth and nail against the forces of nature. His eyes remain cold and intense, and the gap between his front teeth and his massive cleft chin are connected by a series of vertical scars that, linked together, evoke cracked granite. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The current status of his often tumultuous relationship with hockey is still very much on display in this space, though. It gets better. "That's home for me," says Lindros. ", THE CLEAN BREAK ultimately gave Lindros the perspective and peace he needed to find closure with hockey. As Lindros hits his 40s, bits of gray have begun to peek out at the temples from under his helmet. The Sports Forecaster is a division of XML Team Solutions SPORTS FEED SERVICES -- Distribution, Integration, and Hosting ICON SPORTSWIRE -- Dynamic Game Photos FANTASY SPORTS SERVICES -- Online Games and Live Drafts THE SPORTS FORECASTER -- Premium Player Analysis Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and FlemFile columnist for ESPN.com. 8 Bold Predictions 1 Month from the NHL Trade Deadline Bleacher Report - Lyle Richardson • 9h. BACK IN TORONTO, inside the shelf-lined foyer of Lindros' home, the area where you'd most expect to find piles of hockey memorabilia is instead decorated with a series of exquisite Beatles lithographs. In 2011 the NHL adopted new in-game protocols to better identify players with concussions and manage how they return to competition. And if there was a true launching point to what he hoped was the peaceful, posthockey part of his life, this moment was it. "But you want to give me credit? Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Some call it selfish. Get your 2020-21 magazine In the United States please call Digger 1 (800) 965-8326 x777 In Canada Your local Newsstand Or Amazon.ca Singer Griff and rapper Pa Salieu were also nominated for the prize, previously called the BRITs Critics' Choice award, organizers of Britain’s pop music honours said on Thursday. In 2007 Lindros joined the NHL Players' Association in the newly created role of ombudsman but quickly grew frustrated with the league's glacial pace of business, especially when it came to player safety issues. (No one's asking the president if he'd let his son play hockey.) The Sports Forecaster is a division of XML Team Solutions SPORTS FEED SERVICES -- … Lindros asks. He was never the same player again. In the past few years he has invested in two Internet startups, and the underdog, collaborative environment has him bursting with energy, observations and ideas. He mentions that he does 10 to 20 minutes of sudoku and freecell solitaire on his phone almost every day. Yet at the same time, fighting is on the upswing this season, and teams are still permitted to cite "upper-body injury" on medical reports rather than clearly identifying players with concussions. Hockeydb.com is an archive for hockey statistics, hockey logos, and hockey cards. It will also soon become available on Amazon.com , as well as in various newsstands, book stores and grocery stores (or wherever you usually buy your annual copy of The Sports Forecaster magazine). "I don't know, have we?". The Sports Forecaster 2020-21 NHL Preview & Fantasy Guide is now available for purchase at Amazon.ca! It's time, he thought. Just how lucky of a guy am I? 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Lightning crackled just overhead. Afterward they gather in front of the net trying to replicate Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk's sick shootout moves -- that is, until the Zamboni driver chases them off the ice as if they were teenagers. Williams can tie Margaret Court with 24 career Grand Slam titles with a win on Saturday. Please try again. And he did, just in a different -- and far more important and complicated -- way than anyone ever could have imagined. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. He was forced to walk away from his childhood dream after just 51 games, at age 20. He still has those impossibly thick catcher's-mitt-size hands, the same ones that logged 865 points and 1,398 penalty minutes in just 760 games over his 13-season career. At the time, with Crosby incapacitated with concussion-like symptoms, it felt like a much-needed moment of awakening on brain trauma in hockey and in the sports world in general. "An absolute beauty," howls Lindros, remembering the scene. In a wonderful bit of irony, somewhere inside the grand intersection of life, love and hockey, Kina, the love of his life, turns out to be a native Quebecer. A must have every year for Fantasy Hockey. NHL. The Sports Forecaster 2020-21 NHL Preview & Fantasy Guide is now available for purchase at Amazon.ca! The trip was very much what it seemed: an adorable, old-fashioned premarital test-drive to gauge just how well the couple would fare while roughing it at $18-a-night oceanfront campsites, where the biggest decision each day was who had to connect Peggy's nasty blue hose to the toilet pump-out station. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Unable to add item to List. He would sit out 18 games following that first concussion, and he suffered at least five more over the course of the next two seasons. Hughes and the Devils won't play Tuesday against the Penguins after the game was postponed, Kevin Weekes of NHL.com reports. ", In pregame introductions, an apprehensive Lindros stepped onto the ice in full Flyers orange and was given a roaring, goose-bump-inducing standing ovation. Please try again. Then he stripped him of his captaincy. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In your more traditional fantasy baseball magazines, you get a section that offers player capsules on anywhere from 500 to 1,500 major league ballplayers. ", Before long, the lack of progress on issues like these began to gnaw away at Lindros. And when Lindros and his parents dared to question the Flyers medical staff after the team first sent Eric to a migraine specialist in March 2000 instead of a neurologist who focused on concussions, the old-school Clarke flipped. Comprehensive! "It's unfortunate what Lindros dealt with throughout his career," says Maple Leafs defenseman John-Michael Liles, who missed 16 games in 2011-12 following a concussion. "Eric has got to wear the crown," said Hall of Famer Bobby Orr in 1998. Life's pretty damn good over here, ya know?". At 73, Pierre has considerable trouble walking. The reconciliation with Philadelphia, though, was nothing compared to the challenge Lindros faced with his future father-in-law. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. In the showers after the game, a groggy Lindros didn't recognize his surroundings and began to wonder if he had been traded. Last season about 90 NHL players (or 13 percent of the league) missed games with concussions, including former playoff MVP Jonathan Toews. "I wasn't able to completely appreciate everything until I was done playing," he says. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. In 1995 Eric's younger brother, Brett, a first-round pick of the Islanders, suffered a pair of debilitating concussions that left him unable to dial a phone or sleep. Instead, he was playing for his childhood hero, Flyers GM and former Broad Street Bully Bobby Clarke, in Philadelphia. There's a problem loading this menu right now. In the end, he decided he could either save the NHL or save himself. The NHL also carries games on its own channel, the NHL Network. Welcome to this year's 2020-21 edition of 'The Sports Forecaster Hockey Fantasy Pool guide and yearbook!
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