Lindros Announces Retirement After 13 Years
Former MVP Scored 372 Goals In NHL Career
Posted: 3:46 pm MST November 8, 2007Updated: 3:52 pm MST November 8, 2007
LONDON, Ontario -- After 13 years in the NHL, Eric Lindros announced his retirement on Thursday.The 34-year-old spent last season with the Dallas Stars, scoring a career-low five goals with 21 assists in 49 games. That came on the heels of a solid start to the 2005-06 campaign with the Toronto Maple Leafs, in which he was limited to 33 games because of a broken wrist and posted 11 goals and 11 assists. Lindros won the Hart Trophy as league MVP with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1995, and the following season recorded career-highs of 47 goals and 68 assists. But the six-time all-star has been plagued with injuries since then, including eight documented concussions over his career. He became the fifth-fastest player in NHL history to reach 500 career points when he did so with the Flyers in 1997-98. However, a nasty dispute with the Flyers organization and team president Bob Clarke forced the club to trade him to the New York Rangers in August of 2001. Lindros missed the entire 2000-01 campaign as an unsigned restricted free agent before the deal. He enjoyed two relatively injury-free seasons with the Rangers, but played in just 39 games with the team in 2003-04 after another concussion ended his year in late January. In 760 career games with the Flyers, Rangers, Maple Leafs and Stars, Lindros racked up 372 goals and 493 assists. The 6-foot-4, 245-pounder was originally selected first overall by the Quebec Nordiques in 1991 before refusing to play and demanding a trade that landed him in Philadelphia.
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