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hands in the National Hockey League do not belong to Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane or Pavel Datsyuk.
    In fact, the guy with the best hands in the NHL also has the best hands in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the Professional Golfers Association and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), as well as the Olympic Games—summer and winter, in case you were wondering.
    His name is Dr. Mark Lindsay. If you haven’t heard of him, don’t feel bad. He is the first to tell you his friends sometimes call him “The Ghost.” It’s been said by some that it’s easier to track down Keyser Soze, the mythical underworld figure from the movie
The Usual Suspects
, than it is to reach Lindsay, whose personal motto in life (which he borrowed from a famous athlete) is: “Stay hungry, hidden and humble.”
    So who, precisely, is this international man of mystery with the gifted, magic hands?
    Mark Lindsay is a Canadian chiropractor, born in 1963 near the little Ottawa Valley town of Arnprior, Ontario (population 8,114). Mind you, calling Lindsay a chiropractor is like saying Picasso was a painter or Sinatra was a singer. He’s a star in his field who treats athletes to allow them to excel in theirs.
    That would include the NHL’s pre-eminent superstar, Sidney Crosby, and upwards of 100 active NHL players, not to mention countless retired NHLers. Modesty, as well as the bond of confidentiality he shares with his world-famous clients, prevents him from even acknowledging who he treats.
    â€œThe people I treat value their privacy and so do I,” Lindsay says of his clientele. “They trust me to work on them; they also trust me to not talk about it. That’s sacred, and rightfully so.”
    U.S. publications have reported he’s worked with Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez. There’s talk within the sporting community that Lindsay may have, at one time or another, worked with tennis ace Maria Sharapova and Canadian/world figure-skating champion Patrick Chan, amongst so many others who are world class in their respective disciplines. Suffice it to say he’s worked with the best of the best and won’t discuss any of it.
    To know Lindsay—and what he can accomplish with his healing hands as well as a wealth of practical experience on how the human body should optimally function—is to want him to treat you. He’s a man in great demand, even though the most devoted sports fan likely wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a lineup or recognize him if he were standing next to the stars he looks after. But in the eyes of the athletes he treats, and those of his peers, Lindsay is also a superstar.
    â€œBetween the tactile, his incredible ability with his hands, and his thirst for learning, to be current and innovative and ahead of the curve, Mark is the best at what he does,” said Ottawa-based high-performance chiropractor Dr. Duane Smith, who also treats elite athletes.
    â€œMark has that X factor and it’s his hands,” said highly regarded Toronto sport chiropractor Dr. Mike Prebeg, another star in the field who works with the Toronto Blue Jays as well as myriad other elite athletes in all sports. “In our field, Mark is a stud. When Mark puts his hands on an athlete, they immediately know it’s special, that he’s special. He has the touch.”
    â€œHe has the gift of touch, no doubt about that,” said former NHL player Gary Roberts—who would know, since Lindsay has probably treated him, quite literally, thousands of times. “But with Mark, when you combine his touch with his incredible experience, to have treated so many great athletes in so many sports and be able to apply all that he has learned when he’s treating you, that’s what makes him special.”
    Lindsay is humbled by his station in life. He’s blown away that sports’ best and brightest athletes, the
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