Ted Lindsay Quotes
When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
He was an admitted smuggler and although called a “pirate” by some, he had always operated at a Privateer operating under official letters of Marquee. However his smuggling operation was run out of an area in Louisiana where he had about 3000 men which he called the “Kingdom of Barataria”. In the war of 1812, this letter proposed that he bring his men to fight along side of Andrew Jackson’s troops against the British who seemed overwhelmingly superior militarily. His offer was accepted and he and his men were a critical part of the American rout of the British.
Ted Lindsay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played as a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindsay scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times. Often referred to as "Terrible Ted", Lindsay helped to organize the first attempt at a Players' Association in the late 1950s, an action which led to his trade to Chicago. In 2017, Lindsay was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
