More Lindsay love

USAToday writer Kevin Allen added his two cents about Ted Lindsay, who Allen calls a great storyteller, today.

On hockey sticks:
“The Toronto Maple Leafs had a rule that you couldn’t bring a stick into the room unless it weighed 26 or more ounces. Sticks were all wood then, and the reason for that they were buying all of that equipment and sticks and (teams) didn’t want sticks breaking too easily. They wanted you to be able to lay it on a guy 10 times, not just once.”

On Hall of Fame defenseman Doug Harvey:
“They always talk about Bobby Orr as being the greatest defensemen who ever played, and I wouldn’t take anything away from him. He changed hockey. He became the mobile defenseman, tremendous player. But Harvey was still a better hockey player. When you look at Harvey, he had (Jean Beliveau), (Rocket) Richard, (Henri) Richard, Bert Olmstead, Boom Boom Geoffrion and yet when (Montreal) got on the power play he was the maestro. He controlled every one of those guys."

On his favorite hockey memory:
“People say, ‘What was your greatest goal?’ My greatest goal was the next one, because the one you just had is gone. That’s history. And you just always hoped that next one didn’t take too long to get there.

That last one could apply to this year's Red Wings team in trying to win the Stanley Cup again. Last year's championship is history, what matters most is the next one.