Motivation Quote by Eric Lindros

“People on the streets are ready for hockey” is Lindros doing the most Canadian kind of rhetoric: understated, collective, and slightly urgent. On the surface it’s a simple readiness check, the kind of line you drop when training camp looms or the playoffs are in the air. The verb “ready” is doing a lot of work, though. It doesn’t mean fans are merely excited; it suggests a pent-up demand, a civic hunger. Hockey here isn’t a game so much as a public utility, something the city runs on when other forms of stability feel shaky.

The image of “people on the streets” is a neat piece of populism. He’s not talking about season-ticket holders, executives, or TV ratings; he’s invoking regular bodies in public space. That phrasing turns fandom into a kind of street-level mandate, as if the arena’s energy is already leaking into the sidewalks and the team’s job is to meet it. It also flatters the audience without sounding like marketing copy: Lindros is describing a vibe, not selling a product.

Context matters because Lindros wasn’t just any player; he was a franchise-altering superstar whose arrival and performance carried outsized symbolic weight. In cities where hockey is braided into identity, a star’s job includes reading the room and narrating the moment. This line works because it collapses the distance between player and public: the streets are speaking, and the team is being summoned.