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
The problem is there are too many teams.
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.
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.
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.
I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
The home opener that year was the game I'll never forget. When I skated out for the game, I got the biggest ovation I had ever heard.
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 liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.