Frank Calder
Frank Sellick Calder (November 17, 1877 – February 4, 1943) was a British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, journalist, and athlete.He arranged meetings between the NHA's owners to figure out how to get rid of Livingstone, and decided to form a new league.[4] In 1926, Calder first arranged a co-operation agreement with the new American Hockey Association (AHA), then broke it upon learning that Livingstone owned the Chicago Cardinals franchise.He declared that several Cardinals players belonged to the NHL's Chicago franchise (the Black Hawks), or other teams, and arranged for the ouster of Livingstone from the AHA.This was in 1932–33, when Black Hawks owner Frederic McLaughlin circulated a letter to the NHL Board of Governors to remove him.Starting in 1936–37, he convinced the NHL's Board of Governors to let him buy a trophy to give annually to the league's top rookie, and he did this until 1941–42.The differences were not resolved and Calder told NHL teams that they could approach any junior player with a contract offer.[11] Calder was presiding over a meeting of the NHL's Board of Governors on January 25, 1943, when he suffered a heart attack, followed by another in a Toronto hospital.