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Ted Lindsay

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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.


— Ted Lindsay


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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.


— Ted Lindsay


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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.


— Ted Lindsay


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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.


— Ted Lindsay


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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.


— Ted Lindsay


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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.


— Ted Lindsay


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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.


— Ted Lindsay


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On November 10 1991 the Detroit Red Wings honored his contribution to the team by retiring his sweater No. However when Maple Leafs owner Stafford Smythe got wind of this gambit he pressured the league into vetoing it forcing Lindsay to stay retired. Norris on the AHA side.

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' Association (NHLPA) in the late 1950s an action which led to his trade to Chicago.

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