Ted Lindsay
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1966 | |
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Date of birth | July 29, 1925 |
place of birth | Renfrew , Ontario , Canada |
date of death | 4th March 2019 |
Place of death | Oakland Township , Michigan , USA |
Nickname | Terrible Ted |
size | 173 cm |
Weight | 74 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1942-1943 | Kirkland Lake Lakers |
1943-1944 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors |
1944-1957 | Detroit Red Wings |
1957-1960 | Chicago Black Hawks |
1964-1965 | Detroit Red Wings |
Robert Blake Theodore "Ted" Lindsay (born July 29, 1925 in Renfrew , Ontario ; † March 4, 2019 in Oakland Township , Michigan , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who in the course of his active career between 1943 and in 1960, 1964 and 1965, among other things, 1201 games for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League on the position of the left winger has played. With eight appointments to the NHL First All-Star Team, Lindsay is one of the best wingers in the league of the 1950s and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966. In service with the Detroit Red Wings, he won the Stanley Cup four times between 1950 and 1955 . His father Bert Lindsay was also active in the National Hockey League.
Career
Player career
Lindsay started in Kirkland Lake with the ice hockey game and moved a little later to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey Association . His father Bert Lindsay , himself an ice hockey goalkeeper , brought him to this sport. With the Oshawa Generals he won the Memorial Cup in 1944 .
Due to his very good performance, the best league in the world, the National Hockey League , became aware of him and the left winger was able to celebrate his debut in the jersey of the Detroit Red Wings in 1944 as a 19-year-old . Although he was relatively small and petite compared to most of the other NHL players, he made it into the so-called " Production Line " at Detroit , in which he made a majority of the goals together with Sid Abel and Gordie Howe . The high point of his career for the time being was the 1949/50 season . This season he was not only awarded the Art Ross Trophy as the best scorer, his Red Wings also won the Stanley Cup . He was one of the stars of the team that won the Stanley Cup three more times over the next five years.
By attempting to build the first National Hockey League Players' Association , he caused a dispute with the team owners in 1957. Lindsay and his colleagues wanted to enforce a minimum salary and a pension plan. During this time the club owners got richer, but the players earned very little and many had to help themselves with summer jobs. Another problem at the time was that almost all players had at most a high school degree and were literally empty-handed after their active time - during which they received a maximum of 25,000 US dollars a year. Many of his followers were relegated to the minor leagues , the top player Ted Lindsay was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks , although he reached his personal high of 85 points scorer that year.
After living in Chicago for three years, he retired from the sport in 1960 at the age of 34. But after four years of retirement, his friend and former teammate Sid Abel, who was now a coach in Detroit, persuaded him to make a comeback. In 1965 he finally ended his career.
Trainer and functionary career
Even after the end of his playing days, Ted Lindsay stayed with ice hockey and the Red Wings. In 1977 he became general manager when the playoffs were in jeopardy and still safely led the club into the top group. He was then voted the best partner in the NHL. From the end of the 1979/80 season until the 1980/81 season , before he was dismissed for failure, he stood behind the gang with the Red Wings and trained the team.
The Hockey Hall of Fame suspended the otherwise valid waiting period of at least three years for his services and honored him with his admission to the Toronto Hall of Fame just one year after his retirement . 1991's shirt number 7 was in memory of a great player by the Detroit Red Wings blocked . In 2008 he was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for his services to ice hockey in the United States . Two years later, the NHLPA, the granting of a trophy for their view named most valuable player in the regular season of Lester B. Pearson Award in recognition of his services to the union in Ted Lindsay Award to.
Lindsay died on March 4, 2019 in a hospice in Oakland Township near Detroit.
Achievements and Awards
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Records
- 19 seconds for fastest goal in an NHL All-Star Game ( 1950 )
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1942/43 | Kirkland Lake Lakers | GBHL | Statistics not available | |||||||||||
1943/44 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors | OHA Jr. | 22nd | 22nd | 7th | 29 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 6th | 19th | 16 | ||
1944 | Oshawa Generals | Memorial Cup | 7th | 7th | 2 | 9 | 6th | |||||||
1944/45 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 45 | 17th | 6th | 23 | 43 | 14th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6th | ||
1944/45 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1945/46 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 47 | 7th | 10 | 17th | 14th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1946/47 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 59 | 27 | 15th | 42 | 57 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 10 | ||
1947/48 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 60 | 33 | 19th | 52 | 95 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 6th | ||
1948/49 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 50 | 26th | 28 | 54 | 97 | 11 | 2 | 6th | 8th | 31 | ||
1949/50 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 69 | 23 | 55 | 78 | 141 | 13 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 16 | ||
1950/51 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 67 | 24 | 35 | 59 | 110 | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8th | ||
1951/52 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 70 | 30th | 39 | 69 | 123 | 8th | 5 | 2 | 7th | 8th | ||
1952/53 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 70 | 32 | 39 | 71 | 111 | 6th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 6th | ||
1953/54 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 70 | 26th | 36 | 62 | 110 | 12 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 14th | ||
1954/55 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 49 | 19th | 19th | 38 | 85 | 11 | 7th | 12 | 19th | 12 | ||
1955/56 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 67 | 27 | 23 | 50 | 161 | 10 | 6th | 3 | 9 | 22nd | ||
1956/57 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 70 | 30th | 55 | 85 | 103 | 5 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 8th | ||
1957/58 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 68 | 15th | 24 | 39 | 110 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1958/59 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 70 | 22nd | 36 | 58 | 184 | 6th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 13 | ||
1959/60 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 68 | 7th | 19th | 26th | 91 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
1961/62 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
1962/63 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
1963/64 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
1964/65 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 69 | 14th | 14th | 28 | 173 | 7th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 34 | ||
NHL overall | 1068 | 379 | 472 | 851 | 1808 | 133 | 47 | 49 | 96 | 194 |
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
NHL coaching statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | S. | N | U | Pt | space | Sp | S. | N | result | ||
1979/80 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 9 | 2 | 7th | 0 | (4) | 5th, Norris | - | - | - | not qualified | ||
1980/81 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 20th | 3 | 14th | 3 | (9) | 5th, Norris | Dismissed during the season | |||||
NHL overall | 29 | 5 | 21st | 3 | 13 | 0 division title | - | - | - | 0 Stanley Cups |
( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )
Web links
- Ted Lindsay in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
- Ted Lindsay at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Ted Lindsay at hockeydb.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lindsay, Red Wings icon, dies at 93.nhl.com, March 4, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019 (English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lindsay, Ted |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindsay, Robert Blake Theodore (full name); Terrible Ted (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Renfrew , Ontario , Canada |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th March 2019 |
Place of death | Oakland Township , Michigan , USA |