Eddie Livingstone was not a popular man. The owner of the Toronto Blueshirts was confrontational, argumentative, and thin-skinned, nearly getting into fistfights with his fellow owners.
By 1917, the other National Hockey Association team owners were so sick of Livingstone they decided to shut down the association. They started a new league: the National Hockey League. “It’s like our old league,” the owner of the Canadiens explained to a reporter, “except that we haven’t invited Eddie Livingstone to be part of it.”
