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To: Alberta's Child

Interesting tidbits. Thank you. You have to admit, it was a pathetic display not to put the jersey on and smile. Thousands of players strive to get drafted and this enlarged head is going to dictate who he is going to play for?


14 posted on 02/25/2015 5:26:41 PM PST by Rick66
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To: Rick66
TSN had a great 30-minute episode on this a few years ago:

The Eric Lindros Saga

There are lots of interesting storylines in that whole situation. For what it's worth, the guy who appears a number of times in that video clip for the Quebec Nordiques -- Marcel Aubut -- was really a jerk in his own right. He was instrumental in blocking a sale of the Nordiques in 1987 to a buyer who wanted to move the team out of Quebec, and ended up leading a new ownership group to buy the team for a lot less than the other buyer was offering. He then turned around a few years after the Lindros debacle and sold the team to a buyer who moved them to Denver where they became a dominant power in the NHL in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He may have been the most universally despised man in the province of Quebec after that.

18 posted on 02/25/2015 6:41:23 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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