Deceptions and Doublecross
Subtitle: How the NHL Conquered Hockey
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781550024135
Subjects: Ice hockey; National Hockey League; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Canada; Hockey - General; Sports & Recreation / Hockey; History
First sentence: Frank Calder, the first president of the National Hockey League, once told his friend and protégé Elmer Ferguson, "Some day I'm going to write the real story of professional hockey, with all its colour, its incident.
Description: "Deceptions and Doublecross begins with the 1917 conspiracy among a Montreal contingent of the National Hockey Association to oust Toronto owner Edward James Livingstone from the league. The result was the transformation of the NHA into the NHL, with Frank Calder as president, leaving Livingstone out in the cold." "Under Calder's iron-fisted direction, the NHL became the only major hockey league in North America and gained exclusive claim to the Stanley Cup."--Jacket.