From The Globe and Mail:
David Shoalts
Port Colborne, Ont. — Globe and Mail Update
Last updated on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009
When Ted (Teeder) Kennedy was the best player for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the years following the Second World War, sports heroes were portrayed as unassuming gods, quiet and reserved off the ice but merciless competitors once the puck was dropped.
The sporting legend was fictional as often as not but, his contemporaries say, not in Mr. Kennedy’s case.
He was the embodiment of an era when hockey players were expected to give all they had to the team without concern for the size of their paycheque or endorsement opportunities.
The quintessential Leaf died yesterday morning in a nursing home in his hometown of Port Colborne, Ont., of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
“He was the Leafs,” said Bob Haggert, who was hired by Mr. Day as an assistant trainer in 1954 and watched Mr. Kennedy closely in his last two seasons with the Leafs. “He was Conn Smythe, he was Hap Day, he was that era all rolled into one.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-legend-kennedy-dies/article1252478
Also:
LEAFS TV (via You Tube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS_mMzp4xZ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9dA8WnQrzs
LEGENDS OF HOCKEY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5BuUysYEeM
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