Lloyd Thompson Pollock was a Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman.
60 Facts About Lloyd Pollock
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Lloyd Pollock was a cofounder of the International Hockey League in 1945, and founder of the original Windsor Spitfires junior team in 1946.
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Lloyd Pollock served as president of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1961 to 1963, welcomed the Montreal Junior Canadiens into the OHA when it was divided by the Metro Junior A League, and supported measures to preserve the Northern Ontario Hockey Association.
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Lloyd Pollock served four years as a vice-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1964 to 1968, and was its president in 1968.
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Lloyd Pollock oversaw international tours between the Canadian and Soviet national teams, and arbitrated disputes in Memorial Cup competition as vice-president.
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Lloyd Pollock served as the CAHA president at a time when the Western Canada Hockey League left the CAHA jurisdiction and joined the rival Canadian Hockey Association over disputes on the age limit of junior players.
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Lloyd Pollock resigned in 1968 for business reasons, and regretted becoming CAHA president at a critical time.
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Lloyd Thompson Pollock was born on July 26,1909, in Pine River, Ontario.
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Lloyd Pollock moved to Windsor in 1933, and began working for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a cashier.
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On December 5,1945, at the Norton Palmer Hotel in Windsor, Lloyd Pollock was one of the eight attendees of the inaugural meeting which founded the International Hockey League, which included Jack Adams and Fred Huber both of the Detroit Red Wings.
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Lloyd Pollock served as general manager of the Windsor Hettche Spitfires in the IHL, which acted as a farm team for the Detroit Red Wings.
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Lloyd Pollock convinced the Detroit Red Wings to relocate prospect players from the Galt Red Wings to Windsor in 1947.
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Lloyd Pollock moved up to provincial level hockey in 1952 and served on the OHA executive committee until 1963.
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Lloyd Pollock felt that players were overpaid and stated that team budgets should correspond to attendance figures and ticket sales.
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Lloyd Pollock was elected president of the OHA in 1961 and served as its leader until 1963.
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In 1961, Lloyd Pollock was faced with the junior teams based in Toronto splitting off into the Metro Junior A League, which left the OHA's junior division with only five teams.
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Lloyd Pollock briefly considered operating the OHA outside of the CAHA's jurisdiction but decided against doing so.
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Lloyd Pollock stated a continued desire to have only one Junior-A league in Ontario and to reunite the teams under the OHA's jurisdiction.
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Lloyd Pollock spoke out against players under the age of 16 being asked to move away from home to play hockey.
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Lloyd Pollock was elected the second vice-president of the CAHA, on May 23,1964, serving under Lionel Fleury as president.
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Lloyd Pollock sat on the CAHA committee to reevaluate the existing development agreement with the National Hockey League, in an attempt to have amateur hockey be more independent from professional influence.
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Lloyd Pollock oversaw the Soviet Union national ice hockey team's tour through Toronto, in December 1964.
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Lloyd Pollock reacted by saying, "possibly we should consider now whether or not its worth" going to future championships, in response to the IIHF disregarding the Canadian Centennial request.
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Lloyd Pollock was reelected as the second vice-president of the CAHA on May 28,1965.
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Lloyd Pollock oversaw the Soviet Union national ice hockey team's 1965 tour, which included games against the Canada men's national ice hockey team, Montreal Junior Canadiens, and Toronto Marlboros.
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In January 1966, Lloyd Pollock chaperoned the Sherbrooke Beavers exhibition tour of Europe, and the 1965 Allan Cup champions.
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When reports surfaced from the media in Moscow that Canadian diplomat Robert Ford had admonished the team for rough play, Lloyd Pollock denied the reports as untrue.
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Lloyd Pollock said that the decision was due to professional leagues in both countries violating the principles of the agreement by assigning players to IHL and the Eastern Hockey League.
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Lloyd Pollock said American professional teams were supplementing rosters by taking advantage of a 10-day period to negotiate a player transfer, and using the player in games without completing the transfer.
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Lloyd Pollock was placed in charge of the 1966 Memorial Cup which included multiple protests and disagreements between the Edmonton Oil Kings and the Oshawa Generals.
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Lloyd Pollock was quoted as saying "a big stick can be just as effective as a soft-sell", after he rejected protests from both Wren Blair of Oshawa, and Bill Hunter of Edmonton, for both managers not knowing the regulations.
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Lloyd Pollock responded by saying that the idea would be nothing more than a pipe dream, and would not be feasible while the CAHA was renegotiating an agreement with professional leagues.
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Lloyd Pollock was elected the first vice-president of the CAHA, on May 28,1966, serving for two years under Fred Page as president.
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Lloyd Pollock was part of the executive committee which decided on which Canadian cities would host games in the tournament.
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The CAHA and the WCJHL reached an agreement for its western teams to compete for the 1968 Memorial Cup, and Lloyd Pollock was put in charge of the schedule between the Niagara Falls Flyers and the Estevan Bruins.
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Lloyd Pollock chose to schedule a game at the Montreal Forum to increase profits for CAHA, due to the smaller size of the Flyers' Niagara Falls Memorial Arena, and Maple Leaf Gardens not being available.
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Lloyd Pollock and Fred Page chose to hold a special meeting with the CAHA executive and the CAHA branch presidents in advance of the upcoming general meeting.
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Lloyd Pollock summarized the meeting as reiterating the CAHA stance on the change of age limit for junior players due to the new agreement with the NHL, despite pending motions from delegates in the OHA and the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association to raise the age limit.
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Lloyd Pollock was elected president of the CAHA at its general meeting in May 1968.
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Lloyd Pollock felt the previous suspensions were premature, as they did not stop the teams from playing.
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Lloyd Pollock said that his stand on suspensions was misunderstood a week before.
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Lloyd Pollock said that players would not likely be released just to play outside the CAHA, and would be suspended for doing so; and that teams which played outside of the CAHA would lose their annual subsidy, and be ineligible for the Memorial Cup playoffs.
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In July 1968, Lloyd Pollock helped to set up meetings across Western Canada to outline the CAHA's development plan for teams which had remained within the CAHA.
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Lloyd Pollock laid out plans to make player transfers easier between provinces to support the Saskatchewan teams.
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Lloyd Pollock stated that players leaving for the WOJHL would face difficulty in being reinstated with the OHA, but no suspensions were issued.
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Lloyd Pollock felt that Butlin was making a smokescreen for the failing CHA, when claims were made that NHL teams had contacted the CHA for placement of prospect players.
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In October 1968, Lloyd Pollock was feeling overwhelmed by the expectations as the CAHA president.
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Lloyd Pollock announced his resignation after taking a week's vacation to contemplate his future.
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Page said the association will "greatly miss the many years of hockey experience which Lloyd Pollock brought to the CAHA as an officer".
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Lloyd Pollock resigned for "business reasons" after his professional career shifted from Windsor to Chatham, Ontario.
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Lloyd Pollock was transferred to Chatham in July 1968, commuted round-trip from Windsor each weekday, was frequently contacted at work for hockey matters, spent his evenings responding to CAHA business, and was away on weekends for hockey events.
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Lloyd Pollock considered selling his house, but chose to remain in Windsor since he was close to retiring and wanted to keep his wife happy.
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Lloyd Pollock regretted becoming CAHA president at a critical time in his life, which coincided with the division of ice hockey governing bodies in Canada.
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Lloyd Pollock was succeeded as the CAHA president by Earl Dawson in January 1969, who had been acting as president since the resignation.
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Lloyd Pollock was a recipient of the OHA Gold Stick award in 1970, in recognition of his career in ice hockey.
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Lloyd Pollock died September 9,1993, at the Windsor Western Hospital Centre.
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Lloyd Pollock was survived by wife Freda, a son and a daughter.
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Lloyd Pollock was interred at Victoria Memorial Gardens in Tecumseh, Ontario.
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Lloyd Pollock's nephew Clarke Lloyd Pollock was an on-ice official in the OHA for 20 seasons.
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Clarke's son Kevin Lloyd Pollock won an OHA championship playing as a member of the Hanover Barons in 1991.