Former Philadelphia Flyers captains Bob Clarke and Eric Lindros may put and end to their ten-year feud at the Winter Classic Alumni Game and part of me is saddened by this.
When Clarke was the GM in Philadelphia him and Lindros butted heads many times but according to Phillyburbs.com Clarke is ready to move on. “As far as I’m concerned, (the feud) is over,’’ Clarke said. “I couldn’t be bothered one way or the other. He helped the Flyers, why shouldn’t he be with the Flyers (in the alumni game)?’’
Before I get to why this bothers me a bit here is a summary of the feud from a CBC article on top sports feuds:
Eric Lindros won an NHL MVP award in 1995 and led the Philadelphia Flyers to the Stanley Cup final in 1997, but he quicky fell out of favour with Flyers GM Bob Clarke, who publicly questioned the towering forward’s toughness as he missed time with concussion problems.
The feud boiled over in 1999 when Lindros suffered a collapsed lung during a game in Nashville. Flyers trainers f...
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