bailey’s Reviews > The First Season: 1917-18 and the Birth of the NHL > Status Update

“should mr. livingstone try by any means of injunction or otherwise to interfere with the eastern schedule as proposed, it looks as if the only thing for the nha to do would be to commit hari kari or immolate itself upon a funeral pyre, from the ashes of which, like the fabled phoenix, a new senior professional hockey body would arise” imagine hating a man so much you launch a new pro league to escape him