Heh, Eddie Shore was indeed crusty, though! I don't remember where I heard it my memory told me it was Don Cherry, but he yelled at some player who was not skating the way he liked, and he screamed at him that he had to bend his knees and pretend he was like a bear taking a crap in the woods to skate correctly!
While looking for the source of that, I came across this short, which was a recreation of Eddie Shore teaching Don Cherry in practice how to skate!
He didn't say that here, but it was pretty hilarious...Eddie Shore apparently pinned the moniker of "Madagascar" on him...:)
It was really funny!
Eddie Shore began wearing a helmet after causing Ace Bailey’s (of the Toronto Maple Leafs) career ending head injury due to Shore upending an unsuspecting Bailey in a December 1933 game. Boston’s Ted Green took a nasty fractured skull injury from a stick fight with St Louis player Wayne Maki in a September 1969 exhibition game and wore a headpiece for the remainder of his pro hockey career.
The news media covering the sport advocated for helmets and more and more protection because of these and other incidents, however, often would not consider the issue of increased protection will often lead to players having that increased sense of invincibility that in turn leads to more careless and deliberate behaviour. On YouTube, there is an interview with former Philadelphia Flyer Brad Marsh in which he discusses (after a December 1987 injury) wearing a helmet for a brief period in which he saw far more elbows, high sticks, hits from behind, and other cheap stuff directed at him than at any other time he played in the NHL (mostly without the helmet).