I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
From Ted Lindsay
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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.
With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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