1. Edward James Livingstone was a Canadian sports team owner and manager.
36 Facts About Eddie Livingstone
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Eddie Livingstone was the principal owner of the Toronto Shamrocks and the Toronto Blueshirts professional ice hockey clubs of the National Hockey Association, where his battles with his fellow owners led them to create the National Hockey League.
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Eddie Livingstone was born in Toronto, Ontario, to David and Ruth Eddie Livingstone, the youngest of three children.
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Eddie Livingstone played junior and intermediate ice hockey with the St George's Club in Toronto, before becoming an Ontario Hockey Association referee.
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Eddie Livingstone covered ice hockey for the Toronto Mail and Empire, often reporting on the games he refereed.
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Eddie Livingstone became manager of ice hockey and football at the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association.
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Eddie Livingstone asked for a postponement, but Lichtenhein refused and the league ruled the game forfeited.
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Shortly after, with the Wanderers and Ottawa in a tight two-way race for the league championship, Eddie Livingstone demanded that Lichtenhein follow through on his offer to play the forfeited game.
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Lichtenhein was incensed and threatened to have Eddie Livingstone thrown out of the NHA.
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The league rejected Lichtenhein's request to have Eddie Livingstone expelled from the NHA.
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Eddie Livingstone countered with a $5,000 bid for Lichtenhein to shut down his Wanderers.
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The NHA did not want one owner to have two clubs in the league, and Eddie Livingstone said that he would sell the Shamrocks; however, Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, who had accused the NHA of reneging on an agreement with their league, raided the Blueshirts and signed away most of the team's players.
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Meanwhile, Eddie Livingstone lost several of his Blueshirts to the war effort: Harry Cameron, George McNamara, Howard McNamara, and Percy LeSueur.
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Keats had joined the 228th, and Eddie Livingstone protested to the league about the loss of his star player.
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Eddie Livingstone offered to take goaltender Clint Benedict for Denneny, but that offer was rejected by Ottawa.
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Eddie Livingstone ultimately capitulated and sold Denneny to Ottawa, but not before raising the ire of Tommy Gorman in Ottawa and Lichtenhein in Montreal.
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Eddie Livingstone was going to work on the opening of several arenas and a new hockey league in the United States.
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Eddie Livingstone filed suit against the league and the other owners, and applied for a court injunction to prevent them from moving the remaining teams out of the league.
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About a week later, all of the owners other than Eddie Livingstone announced that they had formed a new league, the National Hockey League.
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Eddie Livingstone was shut out of the new league, but the NHL retained the contracts of the Toronto franchise players.
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The Arena Company did not pay for the players and Eddie Livingstone filed suit for the revenue earned with the players, now inflated by the Cup success.
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Arena Gardens argued that Eddie Livingstone did not own the NHL rights to the players and could not have suffered any damages.
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Eddie Livingstone received support from Tom Wall, the former owner of the Toronto Ontarios.
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Eddie Livingstone was looking at starting an international hockey league with franchises in the US and Canada, but the CHA was again thwarted when the NHL moved its struggling Quebec franchise to Hamilton, Ontario which Eddie Livingstone had targeted as a prime market.
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In 1924, Eddie Livingstone again announced that he was forming an international league that would have teams in Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Brooklyn, and Buffalo.
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In February 1926, Eddie Livingstone announced the creation of the International Professional Hockey League, of which he was president.
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In 1926, Eddie Livingstone acquired an American Hockey Association franchise for Chicago, the Chicago Cardinals.
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Eddie Livingstone negotiated a deal to play at the Chicago Coliseum, the same arena that the fledgling Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League used for its home games.
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In March 1927, Eddie Livingstone tried to sell the team to Harry Herendeen, a Chicago miller, but the league did not approve the transfer.
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Eddie Livingstone said the rejected new club owner had agreed to pay the rent.
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When Eddie Livingstone tried to sell the franchise, he was told that he did not have one to sell and that four of his players were now the property of the Blackhawks.
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Eddie Livingstone filed suit against Frederic McLaughlin, owner of the Blackhawks, charging him with tampering with his players and in December 1927 filed a $700,000 lawsuit against Calder and three AHA executives claiming that his team was taken away from him through a conspiracy.
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Eddie Livingstone returned to Toronto and gave up professional hockey for the amateur game.
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Eddie Livingstone charged that the move was taken deliberately against him.
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Eddie Livingstone outlived his enemies Sam Lichtenhein, who died in 1936, Frank Calder, who died in 1943, and Fred McLaughlin, who died in 1944.
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Eddie Livingstone died the day before his 61st birthday in 1945.