After a post-draft holdout, Quebec traded Lindros to the Philadelphia Flyers for Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Mike Ricci, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne, two first-round picks and $15 million.

Lindros was supposed to be a future superstar but was so prone to concussions that he barely got on the ice. He became a talk show punch-line, while Forsberg won the Hart Trophy and Quebec (after moving to Colorado) rode its trade haul to two NHL Stanley Cups.