I know he played for the Flyers, but the Flyers were our NHL Club here at the time. I remember watching him and went to almost every game he played when he was here. And as a litttle girl at the time he was my first hockey crush I had. His smile while he warmed up and the quickness of his saves just had me in aww. I guess after that made me more fond of goalies then ever. I will never forget the mask he wore either. Was so proud and pissed that he made it to the NHL. Selfish reasons..I wanted him to stay here. Proud..he finally made it to his dream.
I hope I don't come off as being insensitive here, but when you get behind the wheel with a BAC of .24 (3 times the legal limit now), you're putting other lives at risk.
Gone before his time, on track for a great career, a national icon in his homeland, and it's too bad one night of drinking cut it all short.
I loved him back then. I was 10 when he died and remember being pretty sad about it. One of my most prized hockey possessions in my Pelle Lindbergh autographed stick.
I hope I don't come off as being insensitive here, but when you get behind the wheel with a BAC of .24 (3 times the legal limit now), you're putting other lives at risk.
Gone before his time, on track for a great career, a national icon in his homeland, and it's too bad one night of drinking cut it all short.
I know how he died was not cool at all but I was looking at the positive side of his career....I as a kid had no idea of his off ice activities.....but as a person who gave back to his community and was my first hockey idol.
I only wish things were different and he was still around.
I know how he died was not cool at all but I was looking at the positive side of his career....I as a kid had no idea of his off ice activities.....but as a person who gave back to his community and was my first hockey idol.
I only wish things were different and he was still around.
Yeah, it's really too bad for exactly the reason you've stated. An idol to young kids one day, gone in a horrific crash the next. Didn't have to be that way, and it's just a shame it ended like it did as soon as it did.
i think it was the next year, at MSG and the Rags fans were chanting "hextal drive a porsche." throughout the 70s-early 80's i learned what not to do and say from those in the blue-seats!
Wikipedia has him as dying today. Maybe it was a midnight/1am thing?
closer to daybreak, HH, Failure to negotiate a steep curve and hit the side of a school, as the legend goes.... at that time there was Flyers Skate Zone (as there is today in Voorhees, NJ , it was just the Coliseum... Per-Erik ("Pelle" was a nickname) modeled himself after Bernie Parent...
at the time of the fatal, the Flyers had just played the B's AND then coach Mike Keenan didn't play him (another former Mariner actually did---Bob Froese, who then was given the starter's job by default... Philly was scheduled to play Edmonton around that time when this tragedy occurred closer to 6 AM YESTERDAY 22 YEARS AGO....
HE HAD DRIVEN THE SEDAN that he used that night home.... he got a call inviting him to a team party near the Coliseum (FSZ), SO Per Eric elected to to take the fatal ride in the Porsche .... he had a tendency to like fast cars and owned a speedboat in Stockholm, so the tendency to test the speed of the Porsche was a factor...he did run the sedan the same way at times, much to the dismay of his GF AT THAT TIME. The Party lasted all of Saturday night, till early Sunday, as Per-Eric, Don Parvin, and his companion, Kathy McNeal were w/o transportation, and Pelle offered them a ride home... approximately 5:30 AM, 11/10/87, IS the exact time of the fatal crash, as the combination of the liquor, and Per-Eric's tendency to speed caused the Porsche to fail to negotiate a steep curve and hit a retaining wall in front of a school, in suburban Somerdale, NJ.... THE SHEER violence of the crash caused the hood to cave in to the drivers' side or directly into Pelle...
Amid numerous, but generally survivable injuries, the main focus was the cerebral stem, as Pelle was quickly rushed to a local hospital, but no electrical activity was ever restored as Pelle was likely brain dead as soon as the Porsche hit that retaining wall..... it wasn't until 2 days later that Pelle's father ended it after flying in from Sweden to officially end all resuscitation.
closer to daybreak, HH, Failure to negotiate a steep curve and hit the side of a school, as the legend goes.... at that time there was Flyers Skate Zone (as there is today in Voorhees, NJ , it was just the Coliseum... Per-Erik ("Pelle" was a nickname) modeled himself after Bernie Parent...
at the time of the fatal, the Flyers had just played the B's AND then coach Mike Keenan didn't play him (another former Mariner actually did---Bob Froese, who then was given the starter's job by default... Philly was scheduled to play Edmonton around that time when this tragedy occurred closer to 6 AM YESTERDAY 22 YEARS AGO....
HE HAD DRIVEN THE SEDAN that he used that night home.... he got a call inviting him to a team party near the Coliseum (FSZ), SO Per Eric elected to to take the fatal ride in the Porsche .... he had a tendency to like fast cars and owned a speedboat in Stockholm, so the tendency to test the speed of the Porsche was a factor...he did run the sedan the same way at times, much to the dismay of his GF AT THAT TIME. The Party lasted all of Saturday night, till early Sunday, as Per-Eric, Don Parvin, and his companion, Kathy McNeal were w/o transportation, and Pelle offered them a ride home... approximately 5:30 AM, 11/10/87, IS the exact time of the fatal crash, as the combination of the liquor, and Per-Eric's tendency to speed caused the Porsche to fail to negotiate a steep curve and hit a retaining wall in front of a school, in suburban Somerdale, NJ.... THE SHEER violence of the crash caused the hood to cave in to the drivers' side or directly into Pelle...
Amid numerous, but generally survivable injuries, the main focus was the cerebral stem, as Pelle was quickly rushed to a local hospital, but no electrical activity was ever restored as Pelle was likely brain dead as soon as the Porsche hit that retaining wall..... it wasn't until 2 days later that Pelle's father ended it after flying in from Sweden to officially end all resuscitation.
I don't know where you got your info, it was 1985, I was still in high school and I graduated in 86.
I remember that day well. Bob Costas broke into whatever event was going on that afternoon to announce the crash. I remember begging him to get through the details to talk about Lindberg's condition, and then hearing the term "brain dead."
I also remember hearing that Pete Rose tried to salvage the engine out of Lindberg's car. That was foreshadowing of what a selfish, insensitve #*$**@ he turned out to be.
I don't know where you got your info, it was 1985, I was still in high school and I graduated in 86.
take a long look at a Flyers blog back then; it describes the tragic event (although I doubt the Flyer facility is known today as the Coliseum.... the question I was answering was the time (no where was it stated midnight to 1 AM, but as stated closer to dawn of the 11th(the US funeral wasn't till the 14th)
OK..guys/gals....this thread was to be a tribute to Pelle and how I miss him a how I know a lot of other people miss him too......PLEASE dont make this into a pissing match!
take a long look at a Flyers blog back then; it describes the tragic event (although I doubt the Flyer facility is known today as the Coliseum.... the question I was answering was the time (no where was it stated midnight to 1 AM, but as stated closer to dawn of the 11th(the US funeral wasn't till the 14th)
It was actually closer to dawn on 11/10/1985, 24 years ago. Not the 11th, and not 11/10/1987 as you stated in your other post.
