Lindros not sure he'll return to ice next season
Former Flyers star Eric Lindros won't say he's going to retire. But he won't say he'll return next season, either, for his 15th NHL season.
Former Flyers star
Eric Lindros
won't say he's going to retire. But he won't say he'll return next season, either, for his 15th NHL season.
Lindros, 34, is an unrestricted free agent. Because of injuries, he was limited to 121 games in the last three seasons. Last season with Dallas, he played 49 games and scored a career-low five goals.
Lindros has devoted his offseason to helping the players association. He is on the NHLPA's constitutional review committee and among five players selected to head the search committee for a new executive director to replace Ted Saskin.
"Right now, my focus is the 'PA work," Lindros told the Canadian Press. "I'm not really concerned about the rest of it. But the last couple of years have been pretty frustrating in terms of not getting through injury-free . . . It's just frustrating.''
Lindros may be leaning toward retirement, but won't say for sure.
"I've got an idea of what I'm going to do, and I've had that idea ever since the last game of the playoffs," Lindros said.
In other NHL news:
* Washington captain Chris Clark, a winger, signed a 3-year, $7.9 million contract to remain with the Capitals.
Pro Basketball
* Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James will host the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live" in September, an NBC spokesman confirmed.
* Utah Jazz president Dennis Haslam said he is stepping down after 10 years to pursue other interests. He will be succeeded by Randy Rigby, who has been with the Jazz for 21 years.
Colleges
* North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams announced that he has vertigo.
* Rutgers assistant football coach Chris Demarest entered a not-guilty plea in Long Branch, N.J., to a charge he assaulted his girlfriend in a bar.
* Four University of Minnesota football players being investigated in a sexual assault were kicked off the team. They are cornerback Dominic Jones, running back E.J. Jones, defensive end Alex Daniels and defensive back Keith Massey.
Sport Stops
* A United States' collection of college baseball players defeated Brazil and Mexico and moved into the gold-medal game against Cuba's national team at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* Three-time Grand Slam champion Lindsay Davenport will return to the pro tour by playing doubles at the Aug. 17-25 Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven, Conn., a little more than 2 months after she gave birth to her first child. *