Ted Lindsay
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Ted Lindsay 🇨🇦

Terrible Ted (Known as "Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay")
Hall of Fame Left Winger, Four-Time Stanley Cup Champion, Founder of NHLPA
Born 29 July 1925 🇨🇦 Renfrew, Canada
Passed Away 4 March 2019 Oakland Township, United States
Lifespan 93 years old
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"I fought for what was right; they took my sweater away, but they could never take my self-respect."

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Ferocious Detroit Red Wings forward on the "Production Line" who pioneered the first NHL Players' Association, sacrificing his own career for players' rights.

Biographical Record

Robert Blake Theodore "Ted" Lindsay, nicknamed "Terrible Ted" for his fiery physical aggression despite standing only 5-foot-8, formed the famous "Production Line" with Gordie Howe and Sid Abel for the Detroit Red Wings, winning four Stanley Cup championships in the 1950s.

In 1957, disgusted by NHL owners treating players as chattel with no pensions or fair contracts, Lindsay led the dangerous effort to create the first NHL Players' Association. Retaliating owners stripped him of the Detroit captaincy and traded him to last-place Chicago. His sacrifice founded modern player rights, and the Ted Lindsay Award for most outstanding player honors his legacy.

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Perpetual Memorial
Woodlawn Cemetery
Detroit, United States
GPS: 42.4333, -83.1333
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