Ted Lindsay
Robert Blake Theodore " Ted" Lindsay ( born July 29, 1925 in Renfrew, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played from 1944 to 1965 for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
Career
In Kirkland Lake Lindsay began with ice hockey game, but was little changed later to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey League. His father Bert, even Hockey Goalie had brought him to this sport.
Due to very good performance was the best league in the world at that time, the NHL, attentive to him and the left winger was in 1944 as a 19- year-old his debut in the jersey of the Detroit Red Wings. Although he was relatively small and dainty compared to most other NHL players, he made it in Detroit in the " Production Line ", in which he made along with Sid Abel and Gordie Howe for a majority of the gates. The highpoint of his career was the 1949 season / 50. For this season, he was awarded not only with the Art Ross Trophy as the best scorer, his Red Wings also won the Stanley Cup yet. He was one of the stars of the team that could still win the Stanley Cup three times in the next five years.
By trying a construction of the first NHL Players Association ( NHLPA ), he caused controversy with the team owners in 1957. Lindsay and his colleagues wanted so enforce a minimum salary and a pension plan. For in that time, the club owners were getting richer, but the players earned very little and many had to help out with summer jobs. Another problem at that time was that almost all players at most had a high school diploma and after their active time ( in which they were given a maximum of $ 25,000 per year ) literally stood there with empty hands. Many of his followers were banished to the minor leagues, the top players Ted Lindsay was transferred to the eternal past, the Chicago Blackhawks, although he reached his personal best this year by 85 points scorer.
After three years in Chicago, he finished his playing career at the age of 34 years in 1960. Yet after four years in board made him his friend and former teammate Sid Abel, who was now a coach in Detroit, to make a comeback. This year he was able to win the Stanley Cup again. In 1965, he ended his career for good.
Even after the end of its active period remained the hockey and the Red Wings Ted Lindsay: he became general manager in 1977, when the play-offs were in danger and led the club still safe in the top round. He was then selected as the best partner in the NHL. In the season 1980/81 he presented himself at the Red Wings behind the gang and coached the team.
For his merits continued the Hockey Hall of Fame from the otherwise applicable period of at least three years and awarded him only a year after his career end with induction into the Hall of Fame in Toronto. In 1991 his jersey number 7, locked in memory of a great player of the Detroit Red Wings.
In 2008 he was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for his services around the sport of ice hockey in the United States.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Memorial Cup: 1944
- Stanley Cup: 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1955
Personal Awards
- First All -Star Team: 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956 and 1957
- Second All-Star Team: 1949
- Art Ross Trophy: 1950
- Lester Patrick Trophy: 2008