Why haven't we seen another Eric Lindros?

[Hanji]

Regarding Ovechkin/Lindros, the difference is Ovechkin picks his spots while Lindros was full on bull-in-a-china shop 24/7.
This is what led to injury for Lindros and longevity for Ovechkin. Ovechkin rarely put himself in a position to be injured.

The other difference is Ovechkin has better skills and IQ. He could better adapt when his physical skills started declining. Lindros' effectiveness declined considerably when he could no longer regularly steamroll over people.
Meanwhile Ovechkin was still winning Richards (amazing goalscoring IQ) even when his speed was all but gone.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Ding ding ding!!!

A Lindros 2.0 would have everyone here making threads crying about “how he’d need to be suspended” after every game.

Fact is, the game and it’s fans nowadays are toilet paper soft.

People wanted the NHL to ban Tom Wilson, who was basically a less talented Lindros. He eventually toned it down a lot after the league threatened to suspend him for over 20 games at the next incident.

 

[Daximus]

Hockey see's a lot less athletic freaks of nature like Lindros, Lemieux and Chara and the like because it's just not as lucrative or popular as the other 3 major sports in North America.

Most of the very big and footwork coordinated guys play basketball, most of the guys built like brick shit houses play football and most of the guys who have insane hand-eye coordination with size play baseball. All 3 of which are generally more accessible and lucrative.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

Jacob Trouba would make Lindros shit his f***in hockey pants

lmao.

No. Trouba's a bitch compared to most D-men in the 90s.

 

[nergish]

Never watched Lindros play, but is Malkin the closest thing today?

Lindros was different in that he was a gifted offensive player, but also a pest, who sought out physicality and could fight.

 

[Tawnos]

Regarding Ovechkin/Lindros, the difference is Ovechkin picks his spots while Lindros was full on bull-in-a-china shop 24/7.
This is what led to injury for Lindros and longevity for Ovechkin. Ovechkin rarely put himself in a position to be injured.

The other difference is Ovechkin has better skills and IQ. He could better adapt when his physical skills started declining. Lindros' effectiveness declined considerably when he could no longer regularly steamroll over people.
Meanwhile Ovechkin was still winning Richards (amazing goalscoring IQ) even when his speed was all but gone.

I don’t think Ovechkin had better skills and IQ, but since his game was built around those things rather than his physicality it gave him a better opportunity to adapt.

Lindros did prove that he could adapt to a skill game when he was with the Rangers, but by then all it took was one hard hit for him to be down. That’s exactly what happened.