page_title: Tommy Lockhart
section_title: Legacy and later life
hierarchical_section_title: Tommy Lockhart / Legacy and later life
caption_attribution_description: English: 1976-77 Philadelphia Firebirds team photo
context_page_description: Thomas Finan Lockhart was an American ice hockey administrator, business manager, and events promoter. He was president of the Eastern Hockey League from 1933 to 1972, and was the founding president of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States in 1937, which later became USA Hockey. He led AHAUS into the International Ice Hockey Association in 1940, then into the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace in 1947. He managed operations at Old Madison Square Garden, introduced fans to innovative on-ice promotions which made amateur hockey a profitable event. He was the business manager of the New York Rangers for six years, and was inducted into both the Hockey Hall of Fame and the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, and is a recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy for building the game in the United States.
context_section_description: Lockhart was honored by the Ontario Hockey Association in 1948 with its Gold Stick award for distinguished service to hockey. He was elected to the builder category of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965. He was a recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1968, for service to hockey in the United States. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1973.
  The North American Hockey League was one of the successor leagues of the EHL, and named its championship trophy the Lockhart Cup in his honor. He was also an honorary and life member of the Century Road Club Association for his early life work in cycling.
  Lockhart died May 18, 1979.
caption: Gregg Pilling sitting behind the Lockhart Cup in a team photo of the 1976-77 Philadelphia Firebirds.
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