The Eric Era?
by Timmy Corbett
There are several things professional athletes would not like to be called, “fragile” is certainly one. Eric Lindros has a long list of detractors who slam him gleefully at every chance. He made no friends by refusing to play for the financially strapped small market team, the Quebec Nordiques, when they drafted him, first overall. He then was sent to Philadelphia for a package of players and was comfortable being a villain as a rough young brash talented prospect.