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

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in the

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(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

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player

Ted Lindsay 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). Lindsay scored over 800 ...

Playing career

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

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, and in 1907 and 1908 he won two consecutive Citizen Shield as Ottawa Valley champions with Renfrew. Lindsay turned professional in 1910 and played two seasons for the

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in the NHA. When the team disbanded he moved west and joined the

Victoria Aristocrats The Victoria Cougars were a Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, major league professional ice hockey team that played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) from 1911 to 1924 under various names, and (after ...

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 The Toronto Arenas or Torontos were a professional men's ice hockey team that played in the first two seasons of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was operated by the owner of the Arena Gardens, the Toronto Arena Company. As the ownership of t ...

10-9 in the league's first game, in Montreal. After the Westmount Arena, 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

for the

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and his career came to an end in the summer of 1919 after he broke both legs in a construction accident. Following his retirement from hockey, he relocated to Renfrew. He started a car dealership, later moving north to

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during the

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, where he worked in gold mining and raised a family, including his six sons—one of whom was

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, Bert 1881 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Canadian ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey people from Ontario Montreal Wanderers (NHA) players Montreal Wanderers (NHL) players Renfrew Hockey Club players Sportspeople from Centre Wellington Toronto Arenas players Victoria Aristocrats players