I remember this game like it was yesterday. Kasparitis was my favorite penguin at the time and when he crushed lindros like that my jaw dropped because I didn't think anyone could hit lindros and take him out like that. That hit definitely changed lindros's career for sure.
Eric Lindros and the oversized Flyers could dish it out, but couldn't take it. And Kasparitis was fun to watch . (Remember the 'terrible towel'?) The 'high -fives' seem out of order when viewing this short clip, but the entire game tells a different story. So sorry that Mr. Lindros is in the condition he is in now, but it was Scott Stevens who did that! (I really miss 'Doc', too! ❤)
@@ellencorcoran4434 As someone with TBI issues and who is a fan of Lindros I hate to say it but it was Lindros' fault, he constantly skated head down in an era where you didn't do that.
Agree. As a Pens fan also ashamed of the couple players celebrating after an injury as well. No love lost over the years in this matchup. I lived through the 15+ years the Pens went without a road win at Philly
But because it used to be considered clean, doesn't mean that they weren't wrong then. A hit to the head is no good. Imagine the careers that would have been extended with an earlier focus on hits to the head.
Adding insult to injury after Kasparaitis almost killed Lin-drops: -Penguins DJ playing Rocky theme and Queen's Another One Bites The Dust -Alexei Morozov laughing his butt off on the bench
I got to see Jagr play when he was just 17 years old in an exhibition game when the Pens played the Red Wings in Fort Worth Texas, you just knew this kid was gonna be something special…and boy was he 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was at the Pens-Flyers game a few weeks later in Pgh where the Flyers spent the whole game trying to take out Kasper, always remember Rob Brindamor going after Ian Moran for perceived ‘over celebration’ of a goal. Great stuff. Brett Lindros, Eric’s brother, saw his career end with a concussion in Pgh on a hit from the Pens Dan Frawley a few years earlier
Do you mean Francois Leroux? Brett was concussed in a fight with Leroux. He suffered two more in Buffalo and L.A and retired. Frawley last NHL season was 88-89 and then played in the AHL which Brett never played.
@@montuckyman4982 That and absolute BS decisions from Flyers management and team "doctors" to keep him in the lineup when he was very badly (life-threateningly badly) hurt.
Both of these teams drastically underachieved that year. Pittsburgh was in the early stages of its gradual decline that would lead to them bottoming out in 2004 and then getting Sidney Crosby. Philly stayed relevant after making the ‘97 final, with appearances in the ECF in 2000 and 2004. But the lockout hurt them badly and they were unprepared for the faster, post-2005 NHL. By 2010 they were back in the final though.
Lindros was fortunate in the sense that it was Darius Kasparaitis who delivered this jarring hit on him, and not Scott Stevens. Had it been Stevens, who was always a bigger body and harder hitter than Kasparaitis could ever be, coming across and delivering this hit, Lindros would have surely been totally knocked out with his NHL career ended on the spot.
Gastritis could hit in today’s game thew he would’ve been tossed because it’s dirty he and Scott stevens would’ve had to have gotten jobs at burger Kung the league doesn’t tolerate hitting defenseless players any more and it shouldnt
@@jaymoon5906 how is it dirty? It’s the defenders job to stop an offensive player trying to score. Should they just allow them to skate by and crash their net?
in the weeks leading up to this game i repeatedly told my buddies we need to trade for a hard hitting defenseman......the guy i wanted was kasparitis....................and then this happens......damn it all to hell i was so freaking mad.....the guy i wanted started big 88s concussion problems......started the end of his Carrer..........................it still drives me crazy I'm almost 60 and i will never see the flyers win another cup it just aint gonna happen...................
I remember Flyers fans talked so much garbage to us about "Lindros" when he was drafted... YINZ WILL NEVER BE IN OUR STRATOSPHERE! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL 1991-1992-2009-2016-2017
@@sniper161718 exactly 💯 everyone knew this. Clean hit here was just a reminder to 88 that you have to play the right way and not assume anyone steps aside for you.
You know if it were the other way around and a Flyer clipped Jagr, well that's Flyers hockey is what they would have said.. I'm surprised that the Flyers fans didn't set Philly on fire and flipped cars....
Who is the best club in Pennsylvania? Penguins, of course! Super Mario, Francis, Crosby, Malkin. What about Philly? After 1975, it's complete nonsense!
Lindros gets turned into this sympathetic character but imagine him playing in this era? Wouldn't even happen with everything reported about what he was up to in his university days.
@@timyumichuck9262 He was accused multiple times of sexual assault & even charged with rape at one point while in London, Ontario. There are books covering it all. All I'm saying is in this day & age where just one accusation of impropriety can get you blacklisted from the NHL, there is zero chance someone like Eric Lindros would have made it based on what everyone knew about him but covered up because it was different times. Of course I write this using many big words that I'm sure someone who replied "lol wut" will have lost interest by this point.
@@adjy235 I mean if you need me to explain why the best prospect to come along in many years didn't get charged with a crime in a tiny Canadian city that's only claim to fame was hey Eric Lindros plays hockey here... well... I think we're done here. But karma got him.
@@robbiebihari3411 well Mr crown attorney You seem to have it all sewn up I mean no one ever wrote a book full of lies and propaganda now have they We are done here
sadly Lindros just couldn't take a hit, same thing happened to his brother with the Islanders, i have never been a Lindros fan but I feel bad for any player forced to succumb to injuries
It was clean at the time, and should be nowadays. People don’t get concussions because of shoulder checks to the head- they get concussions because they’re all on PED’s year round, making them way too fast and carrying waaaay too much muscle.
@@zalapski9399 Uhhhhhh a blow to the head is exactly how you get a concussion…steroids have nothing to do with it. Matt Cooke’s concussions given to PED ratio was about 1563627-0. Society has evolved to better diagnose them now
Baby Lindros was good at dishing it, but couldn't handle it given to him. Like the time he jumped Scott Stevens, it was all good until Stevens got back to his feet and started hammering Lindros. Then the refs decided to break it up. Lindros deserved everything he got.
I never liked lindros that much but that hit was cheap. I never hit a player without the puck. If you think this was a clean hit that's probably because you were a bad player and that all you got to offer hitting players 2-3 seconds after the play.. the guy don't have the puck you don't hit. These hits made rules and calls tougher and let place to smaller agile players flying around the ice, and took out big rough players out of the game eventually. I think it made hockey way more faster and interesting at the end. Sad for big tough slow guys though. Hockey has changed from toughness to speed. There still cheap shot players that need to be dealt with though.. like being suspended as long as the guy don't come back..
@@GoPackGo2621 30 years ago maybe. If you hit a friend in a hockey game a clean way good chance you still friends at the end of the game. if you hit a friend like this he will never talk to you again.. that means it's a dirty hit. Clean hits doesn't make you lose friends it makes you buy a beer after the game. Dirty hits make you enemies. No matter how you see this that's a dirty hit. Those are two players known for dirty hits.. Glad the NHL is getting cleaner.
@@GoPackGo2621 At the end it's a matter of opinion and how you wanna play the game. I honestly don't wanna play with and against players like this in my league. And I didn't like to watch hockey with players like these. Since they try to ban those kind of play the game has become so much faster and that's a great thing
@@stevkohl8235 I don’t disagree with your assessment or rebuttals necessarily. This was the game at this time, and I never was a fan of Ulf or Kasp. But there was something to the league, the toughness, the level of respect and price you would pay to play like this. Now you got guys running around with half shields acting tough.
@@GoPackGo2621 I agree. It was another era. And I agree that the toughness of the game back then did bring the impression of watching warriors jumping in the arena. I totally understand missing this feeling and the excitement it brings before a game. It just that I don't like seeing a career ends in one hit just for not being focus for a second or two..
I remember this game like it was yesterday. Kasparitis was my favorite penguin at the time and when he crushed lindros like that my jaw dropped because I didn't think anyone could hit lindros and take him out like that. That hit definitely changed lindros's career for sure.
KASPAR THE FRIENDLY PENGUIN , ERIC , SKATE WITH YOUR HEAD UP !
Slight understatement. Lindros can’t open the mail without getting a concussion nowadays.
Eric Lindros and the oversized Flyers could dish it out, but couldn't take it. And Kasparitis was fun to watch . (Remember the 'terrible towel'?) The 'high -fives' seem out of order when viewing this short clip, but the entire game tells a different story. So sorry that Mr. Lindros is in the condition he is in now, but it was Scott Stevens who did that! (I really miss 'Doc', too! ❤)
@@ellencorcoran4434 As someone with TBI issues and who is a fan of Lindros I hate to say it but it was Lindros' fault, he constantly skated head down in an era where you didn't do that.
@@TheFuckingRayzor I wasn't a Flyers fan but these Lindros clips are really hard for me to watch as someone with TBI issues as well.
as a flyers fan.....this is without a shadow of a doubt 100% a classic clean hit.
yeah i looked at it like 10 times.. looks like a great hit to me
Agree. As a Pens fan also ashamed of the couple players celebrating after an injury as well. No love lost over the years in this matchup. I lived through the 15+ years the Pens went without a road win at Philly
But because it used to be considered clean, doesn't mean that they weren't wrong then. A hit to the head is no good. Imagine the careers that would have been extended with an earlier focus on hits to the head.
Adding insult to injury after Kasparaitis almost killed Lin-drops:
-Penguins DJ playing Rocky theme and Queen's Another One Bites The Dust
-Alexei Morozov laughing his butt off on the bench
Lindros for all his skill, got way too used to skating with his head down in juniors. Bad habit that never got corrected
When every game was a battle for survival. Damn, I miss this kind of hockey.
i do not miss this kind of hockey, but I am glad i got to experience it, especially as a younger man--this stuff definitely got the heart
beating
This will always be the hockey I miss and love. What a great game it was!!
when the score is this high during the era of big hits thats how you know the teams are good.
this is the definition of a good ol hockey hit
I got to see Jagr play when he was just 17 years old in an exhibition game when the Pens played the Red Wings in Fort Worth Texas, you just knew this kid was gonna be something special…and boy was he 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was at the Pens-Flyers game a few weeks later in Pgh where the Flyers spent the whole game trying to take out Kasper, always remember Rob Brindamor going after Ian Moran for perceived ‘over celebration’ of a goal. Great stuff. Brett Lindros, Eric’s brother, saw his career end with a concussion in Pgh on a hit from the Pens Dan Frawley a few years earlier
Do you mean Francois Leroux? Brett was concussed in a fight with Leroux. He suffered two more in Buffalo and L.A and retired. Frawley last NHL season was 88-89 and then played in the AHL which Brett never played.
On that day Darius Kasparaitis became a fan favorite all across the province of Quebec.
Tell me why? I love Kasparaitis, but I feel sorry for Lindros...
Because the Quebec Nordiques drafted Lindros ,but he demanded a trade instantly.....he's disliked by many....
Lindros threw many big nasty hits on people so its kinda hard to feel bad for him
He did, but he wasn’t a headhunter.
Neither was Kasparitis. Lindros always managed to skate with his head in the middle of his chest somehow. That's what shortened his career.
If you ever heard all the stories about Lindros when he was growing up, karma's a bitch.
@@montuckyman4982 That and absolute BS decisions from Flyers management and team "doctors" to keep him in the lineup when he was very badly (life-threateningly badly) hurt.
Man, there would be like 100+ games in suspensions handed out in todays NHL.
Kasperitus was a killer, wow. Great video
Lindross should have paid attention to Coaches Corner when Grapes yells "you kids keep your head up."
If memory serves, this was the first game of a home and home. The next day was is Philadelphia and was awesome
The beginning of the end for Lindros.
Clean hit. Lindros caught with head down
Both of these teams drastically underachieved that year. Pittsburgh was in the early stages of its gradual decline that would lead to them bottoming out in 2004 and then getting Sidney Crosby. Philly stayed relevant after making the ‘97 final, with appearances in the ECF in 2000 and 2004. But the lockout hurt them badly and they were unprepared for the faster, post-2005 NHL. By 2010 they were back in the final though.
Was it that game about everything for Penguins?
Lindros was fortunate in the sense that it was Darius Kasparaitis who delivered this jarring hit on him, and not Scott Stevens.
Had it been Stevens, who was always a bigger body and harder hitter than Kasparaitis could ever be, coming across and delivering this hit, Lindros would have surely been totally knocked out with his NHL career ended on the spot.
yes and you are a fact machine bwahhahaha
That is why you keep your head up!
that's why I like Stevens at least as devil with Scott niedermayer
Pěkně si ho našel. 👏
Lindross literally seeing ✨✨✨
Always thought Lindros was a dirt bag especially after sleeping with Brind'amour's wife. That was a beautiful and clean hit!
Lindros head down as usually, he just never learn.. 🙄
Illegal hit now a days!
E Train got derailed. Live by the sword die by the sword.
It was a clean hit, lyntdros was never the same
КАСПАРАЙТИС ! ! !
lindros hammered darius kaspiritis in the 92 winter ice hockey game..... think he still remembers!
The Flyers were the biggest ‘tough guys’ and also the biggest baby complainers at the same time.
rob brown was still on pens in 98???? dont remember him being there that long
He left and came back
Awesome hit
Lindros invented the "play with your head down".....looks good on him
Man this is devastating to watch. #88 #Flyers. Gotta keep your head up when coming in the zone YIKES!
Rumor has it he still has his head down
5:37 yea a double cross check to the neck just might hurt.
Forget Lindros, he got a taste of what he dish out, he took Dackell out from the sens, that's Karma lol
Lindros could get a concussion driving to the game
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving player!
watching lindros try to carry the puck into any offensive zone was always amusing
As much as I hate to see that and I hate Kasparitis, but that was a clean hit.
Gastritis could hit in today’s game thew he would’ve been tossed because it’s dirty he and Scott stevens would’ve had to have gotten jobs at burger Kung the league doesn’t tolerate hitting defenseless players any more and it shouldnt
@@jaymoon5906 Линдрос владел шайбой , это чистый силовой приём, тут не к чему придраться.
Дарюс-вы знаете, в чем правда
@@jaymoon5906 how is it dirty? It’s the defenders job to stop an offensive player trying to score. Should they just allow them to skate by and crash their net?
Direct head contact is illegal.
Lindros had some problems sometimes with his hockey sense so he ran himself to a bad position on the ice and bang! clean hit by Kaspar.
This is the hit that killed Lindros career.
No, it was Scott Stevens' dirty hit.
Boy do I remember watching that live
in the weeks leading up to this game i repeatedly told my buddies we need to trade for a hard hitting defenseman......the guy i wanted was kasparitis....................and then this happens......damn it all to hell
i was so freaking mad.....the guy i wanted started big 88s concussion problems......started the end of his Carrer..........................it still drives me crazy I'm almost 60 and i will never see the flyers win another cup
it just aint gonna happen...................
Big Erics bells are still ringing..
In the hall of fame you mean right jealousy boy
Lindros in the hall of fame it’s a joke🤣
Robbie Brown, the most intimidating hitter of all time.
Clean hit
Каспер списал Линдроса в запас.
NHL's Greatest checking
Keep your head up
I remember Flyers fans talked so much garbage to us about "Lindros" when he was drafted... YINZ WILL NEVER BE IN OUR STRATOSPHERE! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL 1991-1992-2009-2016-2017
For how big Lindros was, never understood why he was so soft.
Never kept his head up.
He's not soft, he was so big and strong in juniors he developed a bad habit of skating with his head down. Can't do that in the pros
You’re very ignorant when it comes to concussions!
@@sniper161718 exactly 💯 everyone knew this. Clean hit here was just a reminder to 88 that you have to play the right way and not assume anyone steps aside for you.
@@sniper161718
100%
You know if it were the other way around and a Flyer clipped Jagr, well that's Flyers hockey is what they would have said.. I'm surprised that the Flyers fans didn't set Philly on fire and flipped cars....
What a shame if they had...😉
Couldn't happen to a better guy. He invented the dirty hit. Not that this was, but anytime he can receive karma it's great!
He invented the dirty hit? Did you watch hockey before the 90's?
0:46 бум бум по рукам
A clean hit with the skakes getting off the ice just before the collision... yea right.
4:47 ‘I don’t like players high fiving after something like this’. Completely agree.
Eric could not skate looking down Stevens Kasperitis
jagr best 1990's era player but he became lazy and unmotivated when he left Penguins.
Who is the best club in Pennsylvania? Penguins, of course! Super Mario, Francis, Crosby, Malkin. What about Philly? After 1975, it's complete nonsense!
That's what happens when you lead with your face
Never look down at the puck!!!!!!!!!
Lindros gets turned into this sympathetic character but imagine him playing in this era? Wouldn't even happen with everything reported about what he was up to in his university days.
lol wut
@@timyumichuck9262 He was accused multiple times of sexual assault & even charged with rape at one point while in London, Ontario. There are books covering it all. All I'm saying is in this day & age where just one accusation of impropriety can get you blacklisted from the NHL, there is zero chance someone like Eric Lindros would have made it based on what everyone knew about him but covered up because it was different times. Of course I write this using many big words that I'm sure someone who replied "lol wut" will have lost interest by this point.
@@robbiebihari3411 and why wasnt he charged mr cancel culture?
@@adjy235 I mean if you need me to explain why the best prospect to come along in many years didn't get charged with a crime in a tiny Canadian city that's only claim to fame was hey Eric Lindros plays hockey here... well... I think we're done here. But karma got him.
@@robbiebihari3411 well Mr crown attorney
You seem to have it all sewn up
I mean no one ever wrote a book full of lies and propaganda now have they
We are done here
100% clean, 100% classless to celebrate concussing someone openly
therien with a dirty hit, boarding, it would have gone alot worse = see the bad injury
first feeling after hit like this is the ferrum taste in the mouth
Если бы хоккеисты 90, сейчас играли в наше время они бы без Б забрали кубок
Смотря по каким правилам играли бы. Сейчас за жёсткую игру удаляют, стали востребованы маленькие и техничные игроки
sadly Lindros just couldn't take a hit, same thing happened to his brother
with the Islanders, i have never been a Lindros fan but I feel bad for any
player forced to succumb to injuries
Like you wouldn't be concussed after a hit like that...
Да Эрик не по зубам Дарюс
Darius the handsome, punished the
Head was down
At the igloo.
E-train lead the league in derailments.
Im 5'11 played like Kasper
How is a shoulder to the face a "good, clean, hit"? His face is part of his head. He hit him in the head. Classic?
Damn, a legal murder on ice.
Its not clean hit, shoulder in the face…..
It was clean at the time, and should be nowadays. People don’t get concussions because of shoulder checks to the head- they get concussions because they’re all on PED’s year round, making them way too fast and carrying waaaay too much muscle.
@@zalapski9399 Uhhhhhh a blow to the head is exactly how you get a concussion…steroids have nothing to do with it. Matt Cooke’s concussions given to PED ratio was about 1563627-0. Society has evolved to better diagnose them now
Shoulder in the face is clean.
Baby Lindros was good at dishing it, but couldn't handle it given to him. Like the time he jumped Scott Stevens, it was all good until Stevens got back to his feet and started hammering Lindros. Then the refs decided to break it up. Lindros deserved everything he got.
Shoulder in the chest and his head whipped down and hit something. Clean hit
I never liked lindros that much but that hit was cheap. I never hit a player without the puck. If you think this was a clean hit that's probably because you were a bad player and that all you got to offer hitting players 2-3 seconds after the play.. the guy don't have the puck you don't hit. These hits made rules and calls tougher and let place to smaller agile players flying around the ice, and took out big rough players out of the game eventually. I think it made hockey way more faster and interesting at the end. Sad for big tough slow guys though. Hockey has changed from toughness to speed.
There still cheap shot players that need to be dealt with though.. like being suspended as long as the guy don't come back..
John Davidson knows hockey…played in this NHL…announcing the game…gm experience…says clean hit
@@GoPackGo2621 30 years ago maybe. If you hit a friend in a hockey game a clean way good chance you still friends at the end of the game. if you hit a friend like this he will never talk to you again.. that means it's a dirty hit. Clean hits doesn't make you lose friends it makes you buy a beer after the game. Dirty hits make you enemies.
No matter how you see this that's a dirty hit. Those are two players known for dirty hits.. Glad the NHL is getting cleaner.
@@GoPackGo2621 At the end it's a matter of opinion and how you wanna play the game. I honestly don't wanna play with and against players like this in my league. And I didn't like to watch hockey with players like these. Since they try to ban those kind of play the game has become so much faster and that's a great thing
@@stevkohl8235 I don’t disagree with your assessment or rebuttals necessarily. This was the game at this time, and I never was a fan of Ulf or Kasp. But there was something to the league, the toughness, the level of respect and price you would pay to play like this. Now you got guys running around with half shields acting tough.
@@GoPackGo2621 I agree. It was another era. And I agree that the toughness of the game back then did bring the impression of watching warriors jumping in the arena. I totally understand missing this feeling and the excitement it brings before a game.
It just that I don't like seeing a career ends in one hit just for not being focus for a second or two..
NHL on fox. Saw this game as a kid remember distinctly.
These commentators are horrible
yeah doc emrick what a horrible announcer lol hes only in the hall of fame
elbow to the head
dirty not clean
cowardly hockey
doesnt hit his head. watch the hit several times. shoulder to sternum