Hockey lovers will be fascinated by the truth about how the National Hockey League was founded and how, through less than savory means, it captured permanent possession of the Stanley Cup. 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.
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It fills a void in the early history of pro hockey in Canada. -- Globe and Mail, Dec 26, 2002 "a well researched historical challenge to the standard view of the NHL's birth" -- Hockey News, Dec 6, 2002 "This refreshing history reminds us that the NHL resulted from a bitter power struggle that included courtroom battles, backroom dealing and personal grudges as brutal as anything seen today on the ice." -- New Brunswick Reader, Dec 14, 2002
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Morey Holzman, a member of the Hockey Research Association, has contributed to Total Hockey: Second Edition, The Official WHA Encyclopedia, and The Canada Cup. He is respected for his pioneering efforts with his Web site, epenaltybox.com. He is a corporate controller in California. Joseph Nieforth, a member of the Society of International Hockey Research, has contributed research to many Web sites, STATS, Inc., and Total Hockey: Second Edition. He is involved in television productions and operations in Toronto.
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"Deception and Doublecross" an appropriate title!
17 Feb 2003
By Irving Osterer
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Format:Hardcover
The authors contend that the consolidation of pro hockey teams in Eastern Canada to form the National Hockey League was often a heavy handed, nasty affair. Nieforth and Holzman make a convincing case to restore the honour of Toronto's EJ Livingstone, who Frank Calder and the Ottawa and Montreal interests despised and wanted expelled from their company at all costs. "Deception and Doublecross" seemed to be the order of the day to reach this end. Holzman and Nieforth illustrate how the arm's length relationship that is incumbent on today's media was quite different in pro hockey's formative years where newspapers editors and columnists often held controlling interests in pro teams and arenas.
I also found the book quite rewarding in that it provided some insight into the character of many players and the forces that conspired to have them play on a particular team.
What is particularly impressive about the book is that the authors have clearly spent a lot of time carefully searching primary sources to arrive at their conclusions. All are footnoted and properly catalogued to allow interested parties to do further research.
I recommend this book for any hockey fan interested in the history of the game.
Irv Osterer
Ottawa, ON
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting as history but a very dry read
24 Dec 2012
By Dan C
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I liked learning about how the league was shaped but the read was more like a documentary than a trip through time.
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Politcal conflicts
19 Jan 2005
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Deception point by Dan Brown was a good book. This book was very interesting. There were feuds between the father and the daughter were very intense sometimes. Because Of his daughters career they have very different opinions. While her father is running for a political position she is working for his opponent. That is a difficult funk for the two of them. I don't think the father should wig out because of it but that's how it sometimes is. Over all thou I thought it was a very interesting book and I recommend this book to more of the adult figure. I really couldn't get into the book. This seems more of a book my parents can relate to not me. I am not into that kind of stuff. Like the DaVinci code. I thought this book was very well thought out. I would give it a 8 out of 10. But it was a very goods book.
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