Ted Lindsay

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Flag of Canada (1921–1957) .svg  Ted Lindsay Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1966
Ted Lindsay
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.

Lindsay's number 7 was displayed as a banner in the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit

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

Records

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
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
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

Commons : Ted Lindsay  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lindsay, Red Wings icon, dies at 93.nhl.com, March 4, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019 (English).
personal data
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