Eric Lindros
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Eric Lindros portrait unveiled

(Pic) Lindros, who played with four teams during his 13-season career, is best known for being captain of the Philadelphia Flyers and centering John LeClair and Mikael Renberg on the "Legion of Doom" line in the late 1990s. Lindros never won a Stanley Cup, but took the Flyers to the Final in 1997, leading all players with 26 points in 19 games. He won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in 1994-95.

In his NHL100 profile, NHL.com Columnist Nick Cotsonika wrote of Lindros' love of the game and his dominance when healthy.

"When he was healthy, happy and humming, Lindros was a dominant force. He had the skill of a small man but stood 6-feet-4, weighed 240 pounds and powered through opponents with a mean streak.

"From the time he broke into the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1992-93 to his final season with them in 1999-2000, he averaged 1.36 points per game. Only Mario Lemieux (2.11) and Jaromir Jagr (1.45) averaged more.

Harris said Lindros reminded him of a freight train.

"To me, Eric Lindros was a skill player trapped in a 'power forward' body," Harris said. "He would crush a defender behind the net, then in the same breath feather a pass to LeClair in front for a goal," Harris said. "He was a freight train with touch. In my painting of No. 88, I focused on the freight train. Big, strong, fast, barreling down on the opposition's net!"