Ted Lindsay's No. 7 will forever be synonymous with a standard for hard work and excellence everyone should aspire to.
A leader and a muckraker who skated in a time when players were veritable slaves to their owners, Lindsay was a perennial all-star and one of the best-paid players in the league. Credited with being the first man to parade the Cup around the rink and present it to fans, his leadership on the ice spilled into the back halls and dressing rooms of the Original Six arenas. There, he rallied players from across the league to form what would become the first players’ association.
A smear campaign began. Lindsay was branded a cancer in the Red Wings locker room, was stripped of his captaincy and exiled to the last-place Chicago Black Hawks. Without his leadership on the ice and in the dressing room, the Red Wings dynasty crumbled, as did his players’ association. It would be 10 years before the NHLPA would rise from the ashes of Lindsay’s efforts to earn official recognition as the NHL players’ union.
“After being out for four years, he scored 14 goals. [In] his first game back, he got into a scrap,” Duff says. “It meant the world to him to finish his career as a Red Wing.” “His first year with the Wings, when he came over from Sweden, [Holmstrom] wasn’t playing a lot,” says Duff. “He would spend a lot of time in the gym to stay in condition and he said there was this old guy in there working out all the time and they started working out together. He didn’t really know who the guy was, but he just couldn’t believe how intense [this guy was] and how much he could lift. Then he found out, of course, it was Ted Lindsay.
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