Leslie Bertrand Lindsay (July 23, 1881 – November 11, 1960) was a Canadian professional

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in the

National Hockey Association The National Hockey Association (NHA), officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor of today's National Hockey Lea ...

(NHA),

Pacific Coast Hockey Association The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was a professional ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). The PCHA was cons ...

(PCHA), and

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(NHL). Born in West Garafraxa,

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, Bert Lindsay was the father of Hockey Hall of Fame player

Ted Lindsay Ted Lindsay (born Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay; July 29, 1925 – March 4, 2019) 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). Linds ...

Playing career

Between 1903 and 1909 Lindsay played amateur hockey for a number of different teams, most notably with Renfrew in the Ottawa Valley Hockey League and the

Federal Amateur Hockey League The Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) was a Canadian men's senior-level ice hockey league that played six seasons, from 1904 to 1909. The league was formed initially to provide a league for teams not accepted by the rival Canadian Amateur Hock ...

, and in 1907 and 1908 he won two consecutive Citizen Shield as Ottawa Valley champions with Renfrew."The Sporting World – Hockey News – Renfrew hold Citizen Shield". ''Ottawa Citizen''. Mar. 18, 1908 (pg. 8). Lindsay turned professional in 1910 and played two seasons for the Renfrew Millionaires in the NHA. When the team disbanded he moved west and joined the

Victoria Aristocrats The Victoria Cougars were a major league professional ice hockey team that played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) from 1911 to 1924 under various names, and (after the PCHA's merger with the Western Canada Hockey League) in the W ...

of the PCHA for three seasons before returning to the NHA with the

Montreal Wanderers The Montreal Wanderers were an amateur, and later professional, ice hockey team based in Montreal. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL), the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), the National Hockey Association ...

. Lindsay stayed with the Wanderers when they joined the NHL in 1917, and was the first goalie in league history to earn a win, when his Wanderers defeated the Toronto Arenas 10-9 in the league's first game, in Montreal. After the

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, the home arena of the Wanderers, burned down in January 1918, Lindsay was left without a team for the remainder of the season. Lindsay signed with the Toronto Arenas for the 1918–19 NHL season and retired when the season ended.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, Bert 1881 births 1960 deaths Canadian ice hockey goaltenders Montreal Wanderers (NHA) players Montreal Wanderers (NHL) players Renfrew Hockey Club players Toronto Arenas players Victoria Aristocrats players Ice hockey people from Ontario People from Centre Wellington