First of all, congratulations to Eric Lindros for being elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the 2016 class along with Sergei Makarov and Rogie Vachon in the players' category and the late Pat Quinn in the builders category. It's a great honor. But for all the bleating and moaning on social media leading to and following Monday afternoon's announcement, you'd think the selection committee had just kept out some combination of Howie Morenz, Bobby Hull and Wayne Gretzky in accepting Lindros.
There's a reason it took this long for Lindros, who last played in 2007 and scored just five goals in his final campaign, to earn the votes needed to get into the Hall.