Scoop Cooper: Triumph and Tragedy: The Life and Death of Pelle "Gump" Lindbergh It has been 31 years now since Flyers goalie Pelle "Gump" Lindbergh lost his life in an automobile accident in the early morning hours of November 10, 1985. Here are my memories of my friend and his brilliant but all too brief career.

Eklund - On the photo of the Headstone... there is a name below Pelle's with some dates, looks like Ann-Christine and the rest is obscured by the flowers... Did he have a wife who also passed? There is a date there too, obscured as well but says 1987...

Any additional information would be appreciated.

Thanks.

He's buried with his older sister.
Ann Christine Barlund.
Who passed away from cancer.

Eklund - On the photo of the Headstone... there is a name below Pelle's with some dates, looks like Ann-Christine and the rest is obscured by the flowers... Did he have a wife who also passed? There is a date there too, obscured as well but says 1987...

Any additional information would be appreciated.

Thanks.
- LarryDingee

Ann-Christine was his older sister who passed away from cancer one year and eleven months after Pelle.

Thanks guys. Damn, the Lindbergh family has endured its share of tragedy.

Always wondered what would have happened had he not died. He was excellent and loved watching him play as a kid. Hated the Flyers but he was a favorite player. RIP

RIP Pelle, we miss ya Gumper!

Those goalie pads make me so happy

Always wondered what would have happened had he not died. He was excellent and loved watching him play as a kid. Hated the Flyers but he was a favorite player. RIP
- Roadrunner75

If he had lived Ron Hextall would have been expendable & dealt away. You can play those "what if" games forever with anyone in life who tragically die so young.

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Have a framed picture of him with a ticket stub from 83 All Star game. RIP Pelle.

Good read. Thanks for posting it.

Beautiful story, Scoop.

I'm not sure I had ever heard the bit about Peeters going to the Bruins because the Flyers were so high on Lindbergh. Watching Peeters in his Vezina season 82-83 are some of my earliest hockey memories, so I guess I have Gump to thank for those, too. :'-)

The other thing that stuck out to me (being a numbers geek) was seeing that 3.02 was good enough to win a Vezina in 1985.. 3.02 now gets you demoted at least once..

Beautiful story, Scoop.

I'm not sure I had ever heard the bit about Peeters going to the Bruins because the Flyers were so high on Lindbergh. Watching Peeters in his Vezina season 82-83 are some of my earliest hockey memories, so I guess I have Gump to thank for those, too. :'-)

The other thing that stuck out to me (being a numbers geek) was seeing that 3.02 was good enough to win a Vezina in 1985.. 3.02 now gets you demoted at least once..
- Neely8Em

Thank you for the kind words. As for Gump's 3.02 GAA, remember this was in the era when Wayne Gretzky regularly had 200+ point seasons and goal scoring was much higher league wide. Sixteen NHL players had 100 or more points in 1984-85 while only one, Patrick Kane, did last year and he just barely broke that plateau with 106 points. The NHL game was a completely different animal three decades ago.

Thank you for the kind words. As for Gump's 3.02 GAA, remember this was in the era when Wayne Gretzky regularly had 200+ point seasons and goal scoring was much higher league wide. Sixteen NHL players had 100 or more points in 1984-85 while only one, Patrick Kane, did last year and he just barely broke that plateau with 106 points. The NHL game was a completely different animal three decades ago.
- iScoop

Yep & the first round was best of 5 & prior to 1992 16 of the then 21 teams got into the playoffs, so ludicrious now that you look back.