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CAPITALS

WON

In this April 16, 1954, file photo,
Detroit Red Wings captain Ted
Lindsay hugs the Stanley Cup
after his team defeated the
Montreal Canadiens, 4-3, in a
sudden death extra period to
win the Stanley Cup finals, in
Detroit.
Associated Press
Red Wings

great, NHL

union pioneer

Ted Lindsay

dies at 93

By LARRY LAGE and NOAH
TRISTER
AP Sports Writers
DETROIT (AP) — Ted Lind-
say lived to do what he
thought was right.
He pioneered the first NHL
players’ union despite in-
tense opposition from
team management, be-
gan the tradition of taking
the Stanley Cup closer to
fans by skating it around
the ice and refused to at-
tend his own Hall of Fame Ovechkin, Caps win 4th in row
induction ceremony be-
cause only men were al- with 3-2 victory over Rangers
lowed.
“I was led by a feeling of
fairness,” Lindsay once
said. Lindsay, the 5-foot- Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovech-
8, 160-pound tough guy kin looks to the referee for a call af-
who provided muscle and ter New York Rangers goaltender Al-
meanness on the Detroit
Red Wings’ famed “Pro- exandar Georgiev threw his stick as
duction Line” of the 1950s, Ovechkin skated in during a shoot-
died Monday at the age out in an NHL hockey game Sunday,
of 93 in his home in Michi- March 3, 2019, at Madison Square
gan, according to Lew
LaPaugh, his son-in-law Garden in New York. The referees
and president of the Ted awarded Ovechkin the goal.
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