When John LeClair first came to the Philadelphia Flyers, I was less than enthusiastic. LeClair was a solid, young player, but Mark Recchi was sent to the Montreal Canadiens as part of the trade. Recchi was already established as my favorite player to use in the EA NHL video game series, and from playing Montreal, LeClair, Eric Desjardins, and Gilbert Dionne weren’t exactly names that inspired fear in my rink raging thumbs.
EA’s spectacular game series taught me just about everything about hockey up to that point.