ERIC LINDROS CAREER HIGH 47TH GOAL FULL TICKET 4/14/1996 FLYERS LIGHTNING Philly

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View ERIC LINDROS CAREER HIGH 47TH GOAL FULL TICKET 4/14/1996 FLYERS LIGHTNING Philly with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. ERIC LINDROS SCORES HIS CAREER-HIGH 47TH GOAL. Lindros finished the remarkable 1995-96 regular season with All three totals —47 goals, 68 assists and 115 points — were NHL career highs for Lindros. ERIC LINDROS CAREER HIGH 47TH GOAL FULL TICKET 4/14/1996 FLYERS LIGHTNING PHILADELPHIA FLYERS vs. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING April 14, 1996 • Thunderdome • St. Petersburg, Florida Eric Lindros Career-High 47th Goal • Flyers Clinch #1 Seed in East • Lightning First Playoff Season FINAL SCORE: Philadelphia Flyers 3, Tampa Bay Lightning 1 ATTENDANCE: 23,697 TICKET FORMAT: TRUE FULL TICKET This is a traditional pre-barcode  FULL TICKET , retaining its original attached audit/control portion. The repeated Section 107 / Row WCH / Seat 1 information on both portions is an important physical indicator that the ticket remains in its complete originally issued configuration rather than being an admitted ticket stub. Seat:  Section 107 • Row WCH • Seat 1 Face Value:  $12.50 Venue:  Thunderdome, St. Petersburg, Florida ERIC LINDROS SCORES HIS CAREER-HIGH 47TH GOAL The centerpiece of this game came just  17 seconds into the second period . Philadelphia captain and Hockey Hall of Famer  Eric Lindros scored his 47th goal of the 1995-96 season , assisted by fellow Hockey Hall of Famer  Dale Hawerchuk  and Karl Dykhuis. Because this was Philadelphia's  final regular-season game , goal #47 established the final total for what remained the highest-scoring goal season of Lindros' NHL career. Lindros finished the remarkable 1995-96 regular season with: 73 games • 47 goals • 68 assists • 115 points All three totals —  47 goals, 68 assists and 115 points — were NHL career highs for Lindros. This was also  career regular-season goal #161  for Lindros. He had scored 41, 44 and 29 goals in his first three NHL seasons, followed by his 47 goals in 1995-96. Lindros wasn't finished after scoring. At 5:04 of the second period he assisted on Kerry Huffman's goal, giving him a  two-point game . Lindros' final line: 1 Goal • 1 Assist • 2 Points • +2 • 6 Shots This ticket therefore comes from the game in which one of the defining superstars of 1990s hockey scored the final goal of the greatest offensive regular season of his NHL career. THE FLYERS SECURE THE #1 SEED IN THE EAST The game carried major postseason implications for Philadelphia. The Flyers entered the final day battling Pittsburgh for the top position in the Eastern Conference. Philadelphia defeated Tampa Bay 3-1 while Boston defeated Pittsburgh. That combination left the Flyers with  103 points to Pittsburgh's 102 , giving Philadelphia the  #1 seed and home-ice advantage in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Flyers completed the regular season: 45-24-13 • 103 points 1st — Atlantic Division 1st — Eastern Conference So this full ticket doesn't merely represent Philadelphia's final regular-season victory — it represents the game that helped secure the Flyers' position atop the Eastern Conference entering the 1996 Stanley Cup Playoffs. TAMPA BAY HAD JUST MADE FRANCHISE HISTORY The Tampa Bay side of this ticket carries an equally interesting historical connection. The Lightning had entered the NHL in 1992-93 and had never reached the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That changed  one day before this game . On April 13, 1996, New Jersey was eliminated from playoff contention when Ottawa defeated the defending Stanley Cup champion Devils, clinching the  first Stanley Cup Playoff berth in Tampa Bay Lightning franchise history. That made this April 14 game Tampa Bay's  first game after officially becoming a playoff team  and its final regular-season game before the franchise's first Stanley Cup Playoff appearance. Tampa Bay completed the season: 38-32-12 • 88 points 8th — Eastern Conference Only two days later, on April 16, the Lightning would play the  first playoff game in franchise history . And their opponent? These same Philadelphia Flyers. A PREVIEW OF THE PLAYOFF SERIES THAT STARTED TWO DAYS LATER This makes the ticket especially interesting historically. The NHL's #1 Eastern seed and #8 seed played one another in the final regular-season game on April 14 — and then immediately met again in the opening round of the playoffs beginning April 16. Philadelphia won Game 1, 7-3, but Tampa Bay made the series considerably more competitive than expected. The Lightning won Game 2 in overtime and then won Game 3 in overtime at the Thunderdome, taking a surprising 2-1 series lead. Philadelphia recovered and won the next three games to eliminate Tampa Bay in six: Flyers won series, 4 games to 2. The April 14 ticket therefore represents the  final dress rehearsal for Tampa Bay's first playoff series in franchise history. COMPLETE GAME SCORING After a scoreless first period, all four goals were scored during the second: 0:17 — Philadelphia:  Eric Lindros (47) Assists: Dale Hawerchuk, Karl Dykhuis 4:45 — Tampa Bay:  Alexander Selivanov (31), power play Assist: John Cullen 5:04 — Philadelphia:  Kerry Huffman (5) Assist: Eric Lindros 15:49 — Philadelphia:  Rod Brind'Amour (26) Assists: Pat Falloon, John Druce Philadelphia never surrendered the lead after Huffman's goal and won 3-1. GARTH SNOW — OUTSTANDING IN GOAL Philadelphia goaltender  Garth Snow  had one of the game's strongest performances. Snow stopped  28 of 29 shots , allowing only Selivanov's power-play goal and finishing with a  .966 save percentage . Tampa Bay's Jeff Reese faced 34 Philadelphia shots and made  31 saves . THE GAME GOT NASTY The playoff atmosphere arrived before the playoffs did. At  7:53 of the second period , Tampa Bay's Alexander Selivanov became involved in a confrontation with Philadelphia defenseman Petr Svoboda. Selivanov received: Gross misconduct — 10 minutes Unsportsmanlike conduct — 2 minutes Roughing — 2 minutes High-sticking — 2 minutes Contemporary accounts reported that the incident included  Selivanov pulling Svoboda's hair . Svoboda received roughing and high-sticking minors. The bad blood continued. Michel Petit received a misconduct later in the second period, and at 18:44 of the third Eric Lindros received  two roughing minors  during another late-game confrontation involving multiple players. By the end of the afternoon, Tampa Bay had accumulated  46 penalty minutes . Considering these teams were scheduled to begin a playoff series against one another just two days later, this regular-season finale already had the feel of postseason hockey. HOCKEY HALL OF FAMERS Two Hockey Hall of Fame players appeared for Philadelphia, and both combined on the game's most historically significant play. ERIC LINDROS Hockey Hall of Fame — Class of 2016 Lindros scored his career-high 47th goal and added an assist for a two-point afternoon. He was coming off his 1994-95 Hart Trophy season as NHL MVP and was in the heart of his prime. His 1995-96 campaign would finish with career highs of  47 goals, 68 assists and 115 points . DALE HAWERCHUK Hockey Hall of Fame — Class of 2001 Hawerchuk recorded the primary assist on Lindros' historic 47th goal. The assist creates an especially attractive Hall of Fame connection:  one Hall of Famer assisting another Hall of Famer on the final goal of Lindros' career-best scoring season. OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS The Philadelphia lineup also featured  John LeClair and Mikael Renberg , Lindros' linemates on the famous  “Legion of Doom”  line. LeClair finished the 1995-96 season with  51 goals , beginning a run of three consecutive 50-goal seasons. Also appearing for Philadelphia were Rod Brind'Amour, Petr Svoboda, Joel Otto, Chris Therien and others associated with the powerful mid-1990s Flyers teams. Tampa Bay's lineup included Roman Hamrlik, Chris Gratton, Brian Bellows, Alexander Selivanov, Rob Zamuner, Shawn Burr, Paul Ysebaert and others from the first playoff team in Lightning franchise history. A HISTORIC THUNDERDOME ERA This game was played at the  Thunderdome in St. Petersburg , the enormous domed stadium now known as Tropicana Field. The Lightning played there from 1993 through the end of the 1995-96 season while awaiting completion of their new downtown Tampa arena. That means this April 14 game was also the  Lightning's final regular-season game at the Thunderdome. The building wasn't finished with hockey, however. Tampa Bay returned there for the home games of its first playoff series against Philadelphia. Those games produced enormous crowds, including an NHL-record  28,183 spectators  for Game 4 on April 23. This ticket therefore comes from the closing days of one of the most unusual home-ice periods in NHL history. WHY THIS FULL TICKET IS SPECIAL There are several independent collector stories represented by this single ticket: •  Eric Lindros career-high 47th goal of the season •  Lindros career regular-season goal #161 •  Lindros 1-goal, 1-assist performance •  Lindros completes career-best 47-goal / 68-assist / 115-point season •  Hockey Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk assists on Lindros' goal •  Philadelphia secures the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference •  Flyers finish 45-24-13 with 103 points •  Tampa Bay's first game after clinching the first playoff berth in franchise history •  Lightning's final regular-season game before their first-ever Stanley Cup Playoff game •  Final regular-season game for the Lightning at the Thunderdome •  Preview of the Flyers-Lightning playoff series beginning only two days later •  23,697 fans in attendance •  Garth Snow stops 28 of 29 shots •  Physical, playoff-style game featuring Selivanov's gross misconduct and 46 Tampa Bay penalty minutes •  Traditional TRUE FULL TICKET retaining its audit/control portion AUTOGRAPH / DISPLAY POTENTIAL For a collector interested in having the ticket signed,  Eric Lindros would be the premier autograph choice  because his signature would connect directly to the ticket's strongest historical moment: his  career-high 47th goal . An authenticated Lindros signature combined with the ticket's intact full-ticket format and the historical significance of goal #47 would make for an especially compelling display piece. Dale Hawerchuk, who recorded the primary assist on Lindros' goal, passed away in 2020. An authentic Hawerchuk autograph obtained during his lifetime would therefore be a particularly desirable addition to an example that already bears his direct connection to the historic goal. COLLECTOR SUMMARY At first glance, this is a $12.50 full ticket from a late-season Flyers-Lightning game. The history behind the date tells a much larger story. 23,697 people entered the Thunderdome on April 14, 1996 and watched Eric Lindros score the 47th and final goal of the greatest goal-scoring season of his Hall of Fame career. They watched Philadelphia secure the Eastern Conference's #1 playoff seed. They watched Tampa Bay take the ice one day after clinching the first playoff berth in franchise history. They watched the same two teams that would begin Tampa Bay's first-ever Stanley Cup Playoff series just two days later. And they watched one of the Lightning's final games in the remarkable Thunderdome era. The surviving ticket retains its original audit/control portion, making this a  true full ticket rather than an admitted ticket stub . A terrific piece of 1990s NHL history connecting  Eric Lindros, Dale Hawerchuk, the Legion of Doom-era Flyers, Tampa Bay's first playoff season, the Thunderdome and the opening chapter of the Flyers-Lightning postseason rivalry. NOPE NONE in USA!!! WOW has this gone up in price. Thanks so much for looking.  Please see my other items. Tons of Hall of Fame, jersey, autograph, Tickets, oddball & Rookie stuff going up for sale now Im selling my lifelong collection im 60 yrs old & a former small show dealer. Have a great day and stay safe out there. Always in a penny sleeve and TOPLOADER for appropriate card in a bubble or cardboard mailer.  THANKS AGAIN!  GOOD LUCK!!! We use eBay standard envelope shipping with tracking for orders $20 and below and USPS First Class Shipping with tracking for orders over $20 and all tickets. We ask you to leave positive feedback, please contact us if your having an issue first, we will make it right if possible. GREAT for Ticket Collectors and Autographs. Tickets are the best for AUTOGRAPHS, Great for inscriptions and always get a reaction out of the athlete. Tickets are the best. Please view scans every ticket is different and many have some creasing and corner and edge wear. Maybe writing on the back, sometimes the score.  Ticket should not be judged the same as cards in my opinion. Tickets frequently have staple holes, hole punch, minor and major creases or folds, even a footprint sometimes, people had no idea to save these and to keep them clean but occasionally they are super clean and almost look brand new. Each ticket is different in the carry era (when people had to carry a ticket usually getting torn by the Ticket Taker) So take condition into account. If you have any questions please ask. Free Ticket Shipping value=8.00+ for tracked shipping, not the cheap good luck shipping in this day and age. so please consider when making offers   NOTE: The newspaper clippings are for reference only and are computer jpegs. These are not actual newspapers but you may have the computer file. The AI files are obtained through Chat GPT and our assumed to be accurate. Please contact us if you discover incorrect info and we will fix it. Condition: ERIC LINDROS CAREER HIGH 47TH GOAL FULL TICKET 4/14/1996 FLYERS LIGHTNING Philly. 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Team-Hockey

Philadelphia Flyers

Sport

Hockey

Player

Eric Lindros

Year

1996

Original/Reproduction

Original

Grade

Ungraded

Team

Tampa Bay Lightning

Country of Origin

United States

Vintage

Yes

California Prop 65 Warning

Dale Hawerchuk

Event/Tournament

Garth Snow