Ted Lindsay
Ted Lindsay
Robert Blake Theodore “Terrible Ted" Lindsayis a former professional ice hockey player, a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. He scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times. Often referred to as "Terrible Ted", Lindsay helped to organize the National Hockey League Players' Associationin the late 1950s, an action which led to his trade to...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth29 July 1925
CityRenfrew, Canada
CountryCanada
With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
Unfortunately, we never won the suit and the union was disbanded the following year after the owners pressured numerous star players.
You didn't skate out and line up at the blue line like they do now. You didn't wave to the crowd. That's marketing. We didn't do that kind of thing.
The problem is there are too many teams.
The next night, you put the uniform on the same way and it doesn't click and the game takes you from high in the sky and levels you out.
My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
Together, we’ll beat autism.
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.