{"id":43047,"date":"2019-03-04T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=43047"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:34:13","slug":"detroit-red-wings-hall-of-famer-ted-lindsay-passes-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/04\/detroit-red-wings-hall-of-famer-ted-lindsay-passes-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay Passes at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League lost one of the legends of the game as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> great <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindste01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ted Lindsay<\/a> <\/strong>passed away at age 93. The Detroit Free Press<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2019\/03\/04\/ted-lindsay-dies-detroit-red-wings\/579477002\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> announced the news<\/a> early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A gentleman, a multiple Stanley Cup winner, an honoured member of the HHOF, a fan of the game, and a dedicated member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAlumni?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLAlumni<\/a>&#8211; Ted Lindsay has passed away at the age of 93. A great loss for the entire hockey community. Our thoughts are with the Lindsay family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWDmZeDqR3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WWDmZeDqR3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Alumni (@NHLAlumni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLAlumni\/status\/1102552951627878400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Ted Lindsay Passes at 93<\/h1>\n<h2>Playing Career<\/h2>\n<p>Lindsay was most known for his time on \u201cThe Production Line\u201d with fellow Hall of Famers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/howego01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gordie Howe<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/abelsi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sid Abel<\/a>.<\/strong> He was an 11-time All-Star and won Stanley Cups in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1955. Lindsay also won the Memorial Cup in 1944 with the Oshawa Generals of the OHL and the 1950 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rossar01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art Ross<\/a><\/strong> Trophy for the league\u2019s top scorer.<\/p>\n<p>He had 379 goals and 472 assists for 851 points in 1,068 games played with the Detroit Red Wings and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>. Lindsay also had a nasty streak thanks to his 1,808 penalty minutes. That aggressive edge earned him the nickname \u201cTerrible Ted.\u201d His rough play forced the league to create elbowing and kneeing penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The Renfrew, Ontario native made the Wings at the age of 19 after trying out for them in 1944-45. He only played one game in the AHL for his entire career. His 5-foot-8-inch frame did not prevent him from being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/red-wings-legend-hockey-hall-of-famer-ted-lindsay-dead-at-93\/9wg9j0mtsbzy1wu50bexk8r9l\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the best and toughest players in the league<\/a>. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966.<\/p>\n<h2>More than a Player<\/h2>\n<p>Lindsay helped organize the first NHL Players Association along with legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvedo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug Harvey<\/a>.<\/strong> Their efforts were eventually thwarted, but a union finally happened years later. The NHLPA\u2019s most valuable player award was renamed after Lindsay. The CBC movie \u201cNet Worth\u201d was based on his efforts to create the players union.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent time as a play-by-play announcer in New York, a colour analyst with NBC, executive and coach. There\u2019s also the Ted Lindsay Foundation that was founded in 2001 to help fund research for a cure for autism.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay\u2019s mark on the game will last forever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/ted-lindsay-sid-abel-and-gordie-howie-of-the-detroit-red-wings-pose-picture-id51842178.jpg\" alt=\"\">DETROIT, MI &#8211; OCTOBER 15: Ted Lindsay #7, Sid Abel (center), and Gordie Howie #9 of the Detroit Red Wings, pose together before a game on October 15, 1964 at the Detroit Olympia in Detroit, Michigan. The trio were known as the &#8216;Production Line.&#8217;\u00a0 (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League lost one of the legends of the game as Detroit Red Wings great Ted Lindsay passed away at age 93. The Detroit Free Press announced the news early Monday morning. A gentleman, a multiple Stanley Cup winner, an honoured member of the HHOF, a fan of the game, and a dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":43049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,34],"tags":[246,95,757,5738,2569,955,897,3524,2160,1488],"class_list":["post-43047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-blackhawks","category-news","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-gordie-howe","tag-hockey-news","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhlpa","tag-sid-abel","tag-ted-lindsay","tag-ted-lindsay-award"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}