no i don't think we'll see an eric lindros again. partially because the size advantage lindros had over his peers when he entered the league would be like if anthony mason entered the NHL. for reference, anthony mason was 6'7, played at 250 lbs, and looked like this
lindros was was just this huge guy built like a hummer.
i remember when i was a kid i met shawn antoski, a fourth line goon the canucks had drafted in the first round with tkachuk on the board.
he was the biggest person i'd ever seen. and he was all muscles—he literally looked like he should be the final boss in a jean-claude van damme movie. and i remember thinking, jesus christ this is the body eric lindros has only he's also as good if not better at hockey as steve yzerman (we can debate whether that is true, but that was the thinking at the time).
but really the thing that is so unprecedented and unrepeatable about lindros though is not just that he was bigger and stronger than everyone. guys grow, guys get stronger as they get older, for example teenage chris pronger wasn't nearly as scary as mid-career chris pronger. it's that when he was a teenager he already was as big and strong as he would really ever be. which is why in retrospect it was just ridiculous to burn that rookie year. when you are a guy whose competitive advantages are so dependent on physical ability, you have to suspect that you're probably not going to make that year back on the back end of your career.
anyway, the most ridiculous thing about lindros to me was his wrist shot. it was unlike anything i've ever seen. just the amount of power he put into that thing was almost comical, like watching shaq shoot free throws, only if shaq would whip the ball as hard as he could. it was like watching a mythological greek giant effortlessly hurling a cannonball with one of those old world slingshots that's just a rock and a handkerchief.