Eric Lindros is reportedly suing a former referee because he feels like he was portrayed as a "dickhead" in an online column.

According to TSN, Lindros has launched a $250,000 defamation lawsuit against Paul Stewart, who wrote a column for Huffington Post which the ex-Philadelphia Flyers tough guy believes has damaged his reputation.

Last year, Stewart, a former longtime NHL referee, wrote a piece for HuffPo that ran alongside the headline “Hecklers, Hooligans and the Striped-Shirted Maitre D”. The column included an unflattering anecdote about Lindros' allegedly poor attitude.

Stewart details an incident in which Lindros intentionally ripped up signed posters that were going to be donated to a charity auction when he learned the posters were for Stewart whom he had clashed with previously.

“The statement that Lindros refused to sign posters intended for a charity auction, and more shockingly, tore them up because they were solicited by Stewart is false and makes Lindros out to be unfriendly, hostile, rude, insulting, vindictive, cruel, uncharitable and generally a despicable person,” said Lindros’ lawyers in his pleadings, according to TSN.

Lindros said in his court filing that the column was republished by several websites.

"The republications reported that 'Eric Lindros was apparently an enormous (bleep)' and that 'Lindros angrily tearing up charity posters is a high point in athlete dickhead behaviour,'” the pleadings said.

Lindros claims in documents filed in an Ontario court that his reputation has been tarnished by the column.

Stewart declined to discuss the case when contacted by TSN.

"I don't have anything to say," he said. "I don't have a comment."

Lindros has asked for $2 million in general damages and another $1 million in aggravated damages. He has also asked for an injunction that would prevent Stewart, the Huffington Port and its U.S. owner AOL from continuing to publish Stewart’s allegedly defamatory statements, TSN reported.

Lindros’ claims have not been proven in court.​

UPDATE: Originally, TSN had reported the lawsuit sought $3 million. They have since reported Lindros' lawyer amended claim to $250,000.