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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I remember being skeptical about the hype surround Lindros before he made it to the NHL. And then, like a lot of other people, I watched slack-jawed as he made the Canada Cup as an 18-year-old and absolutely pasted Otto and Samuelsson with clean hits, then left a Finnish player crumpled on the ice until he was taken off in a stretcher.
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He was an absolute beast in the '91 Canada Cup. That hit on Otto behind the net was HUGE!
I have a cousin that played on the Men's National Team for a number of years. Lindros played a few games with them when he was 16. My cousin couldn't believe the talent he possessed and how physically strong he was back then.
It is sad to see that people typically only remember the Big E from the Scott Stevens hit forward. Prior to that he was a one-man wrecking crew that got the better of Stevens and the rest of the NHLs "big men" more often than not.