The Calder Memorial Trophy is an annual award given "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League (NHL)." It is named after Frank Calder , the first president of the NHL. Serving as the NHL's Rookie of the Year award, this version of the trophy has been awarded since its creation for the 1936–37 NHL season . The voting is conducted by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association at the conclusion of each regular season to determine the winner.
24-525: When the award was established in 1937, there were no requirements beyond that the winner be in his first year of competition in the NHL, and the winner was decided by League President Frank Calder himself. Currently, the eligibility requirements are that a player cannot have played more than 25 regular season games in any single preceding season, nor in six or more games in each of any two preceding regular seasons, in any major professional league. The last requirement
48-543: A 10–7–5–3–1 points system. Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL Awards ceremony after the playoffs. Frank Calder Frank Sellick Calder (November 17, 1877 – February 4, 1943) was a British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, journalist, and athlete. Calder was the first president of the National Hockey League (NHL), from 1917 until his death in 1943. He also served as
72-573: A CAHA team. The differences were not resolved and Calder told NHL teams that they could approach any junior player with a contract offer. A new agreement was reached in August 1938, where the CAHA agreed not to allow international transfers for players on NHL reserve lists, and the NHL agreed not to sign any junior players without permission. It stipulated that both organizations use the same playing rules, and recognize each other's suspensions. Hardy then represented
96-577: A sports editor at the Montreal Witness . From there, he moved to the Montreal Herald and Daily Telegraph . After that, he passed the role of sports editor to Elmer Ferguson so that he could move on to take the financial editor's chair, in which capacity he covered the Montreal Stock Exchange , Canada's largest stock market at the time. He maintained his interest in sports, creating
120-887: Is interred in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. Calder was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947 as a builder. Two trophies in professional hockey are named for him: the Calder Memorial Trophy , given yearly to the NHL's top rookie, and the Calder Cup , the championship trophy of the American Hockey League (AHL). Calder was also awarded the Order of Sport , marking his induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Montreal Herald From Misplaced Pages,
144-644: The Montreal School Rugby League . He was the secretary-treasurer of the Montreal Football (Soccer) Association in 1903 and remained in that position until at least 1911, when he represented the organization at the time of the founding of the Province of Quebec Football (Soccer) Association. He was elected a member of the executive committee of the PQFA in 1911 and 1912. Earlier he was a referee and had refereed
168-614: The National Hockey League (NHL) from its inception in 1917 to his death in 1943. Although Rookie of the Year honors were handed out beginning in 1932–33 , the Calder Trophy was first presented at the conclusion of the 1936–37 NHL season . Calder himself purchased a trophy each year to award to the winner. After Calder's death in 1943 a permanent trophy was cast, and it was renamed the Calder Memorial Trophy. The trophy has been won
192-588: The AHA. Livingstone would give up on professional hockey and return to amateur hockey. When the AHA later attempted to play for the Stanley Cup , Calder declared it an "outlaw league," but he happily accepted James E. Norris , who owned the AHA's Chicago Shamrocks , into the NHL to bail out the struggling Detroit Cougars franchise. The Cougars were renamed the Detroit Red Wings upon Norris' acquisition of them. Calder
216-533: The CAHA at the joint rules committee to draft uniform rules with the NHL. A new professional-amateur agreement was signed by Calder in October 1940 to reimburse amateur teams for developing NHL players, and also applied to players sent to the Eastern Amateur Hockey League . The agreement included allowing the NHL to sign a limited number of junior age players. By January 1941, both Calder and Hardy agreed
240-524: The NHA's owners to figure out how to get rid of Livingstone, and decided to form a new league. The National Hockey League , in the NHA's place. Calder was elected president of the new league, which was officially established on November 26, 1917. Calder wielded his power as president with authority. One example of this authority occurred during the Hamilton Tigers strike in 1925. Rather than negotiate with
264-501: The NHL was made. This was in 1932–33 , when Black Hawks owner Frederic McLaughlin circulated a letter to the NHL Board of Governors to remove him. The board rejected the motion. Commencing with the 1932–33 season, Calder named the top rookie in the NHL. 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 . After Calder's death,
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#1732851974354288-4739: The 💕 (Redirected from Montreal Herald ) This is a list of defunct newspapers of Quebec presented in order of first appearance. 1770–1799 [ edit ] La Gazette du commerce et littéraire pour la Ville & District de Montréal , 1778, Montréal, Fleury Mesplet , printer, and Valentin Jautard , editor and journalist La Gazette de Montréal/The Montreal Gazette , 1785, Montréal, Fleury Mesplet, printer Le Courier de Québec ou héraut francois , 1788, Quebec City, William Moore , editor, and James Tanswell , collaborator Quebec Herald and Universal Miscellany , 1788, Quebec City, William Moore, editor, and James Tanswell, collaborator Le Magasin de Quebec/The Quebec Magazine , 1792, Quebec City, Samuel Neilson , printer and editor Le Cours du tems , 1794, Quebec City, John Jones and William Vondenvelden 1800–1819 [ edit ] The British American Register , 1802, Quebec City, John Neilson , owner and publisher Quebec Mercury , 1804, Quebec City, Thomas Cary , owner L'Almanach des dames , 1806, Louis Plamondon , editor Le Canadien 1806, Quebec City, Pierre Bédard , François Blanchet and Jean-Thomas Taschereau Courier de Québec , 1807, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne and Joseph-François Perrault , founders, Pierre-Édouard Desbarats , printer, Jacques Labrie , editor Canadian courant and Montreal Advertiser , 1807, Montréal, Nahum Mower , owner and editor La Gazette canadienne/The Canadian Gazette , 1807, Montréal, Charles Brown, publisher and James Brown , editor Le Vrai Canadien , 1810, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne ''The Montreal Herald'' [ fr ] , 1811, Montréal, William Gray and Mungo Kay , founders, owners and publishers Le Spectateur canadien , 1815, Charles-Bernard Pasteur , owner, editor and publisher The Canadian Inspector , 1815, Montréal, Nahum Mower, publisher The Quebec Telegraph , 1816 L'Aurore , 1817, Montréal, Michel Bibaud and Joseph Victor Delorme Gazette des Trois-Rivières , 1817, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay , founder, printer and editor L'Abeille canadienne , 1818, Montréal, Henri-Antoine Mézière Le Courrier du Bas-Canada , Montréal, 1819, Joseph Victor Delorme , founder, printer, and Michel Bibaud , editor journalist 1820–1829 [ edit ] L'Ami de la religion et du roi , 1820, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay The Enquirer , 1821, Quebec City The Scribbler , 1821, Montréal, Samuel Hull Wilcocke , owner and editor, J. Lame, printer La Gazette canadienne , 1822, Montréal, Jonh Quilliam The Canadian Spectator , 1822, John Jones , editor, Jocelyn Waller , journalist The Canadian Times and Weekly Literary and Political Reporter , 1823, Ariel Bowman , printer, Edward Vernon Sparhawk , editor Christian Register , 1823, Montréal British Colonist and St-Françis Gazette , 1823, Stanstead, S. H. Dickerson Le Constitutionnel , 1823, Ludger Duvernay, owner, editor and journalist The Canadian Magazine and Literary Repository , 1823, Montréal, Joseph Nickless , owner, David Chisholmes and Alexander James Christie , directors The Canadian Review and Literary and Historical Journal , 1824, Montréal, Henry H. Cunningham , owner, David Chisholmes, director La Bibliothèque canadienne, ou miscellanées historiques, scientifiques et littéraires 1825, Montréal, Michel Bibaud and Joseph-Marie Bellenger La Minerve , 1826, Montréal, Augustin-Norbert Morin , founder, owner, printer and journalist L'Argus, Journal electorique , 1826, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay La Gazette de Saint-Philippe , 1826, Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, F-X Pigeon, founder Journal de médecine de Québec , 1826, Quebec City, Xavier Tessier The Christian Sentinel and Anglo-Canadian Churchman's Magazine , 1827 L'Électeur-The Elector , 1827, François Lemaître The Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser , 1828, Montréal, Daniel Tracey , founder, editor, printer and journalist Journal des sciences naturelles , 1828, Quebec City, maybe Xavier Tessier Le coin du feu , 1829, Montréal, Madame Raoul Dandurand , founder & editor; Jacques Labrie and Augustin-Norbert Morin 1830–1839 [ edit ] L'Observateur 1830, Michel Bibaud , Ludger Duvernay, printer Le Magasin du Bas-Canada, Journal littéraire et scientifique 1832, Montréal, Michel Bibaud, Ludger Duvernay, printer L'Ami du peuple, de l'ordre et des lois 1832, Montréal,
312-553: The game between the Montreal All-Stars and the touring Corinthians from England in 1906. On November 15, 1914, Calder was appointed secretary-treasurer of the National Hockey Association (NHA). In 1917, the NHA owners decided to drop Eddie Livingstone 's Toronto Blueshirts franchise and took his players. Robinson, seeing he was as powerless as his predecessor Emmett Quinn was resigned as NHA president. At
336-468: The last acting president of the NHL's predecessor league, the National Hockey Association (NHA), and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a transition made to expel a franchise owner. He presided over the expansion of the NHL from Canada into the United States , while at the same time fending off rivals to the NHL's status as the premier North American ice hockey league. Calder
360-570: The limitation is for regular season games only, exempting games played in the playoffs. This has led to aberrations such as Ken Dryden winning the Calder in 1972, despite leading the Montreal Canadiens to a Stanley Cup victory the season before, and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP. The Calder Memorial Trophy is named in honour of Frank Calder , the former president of
384-603: The most times by rookies from the Toronto Maple Leafs , who have won it on ten occasions, with the most recent being Auston Matthews in 2017. The second-most is the Chicago Blackhawks with nine wins. Since the 1948 season, the voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association , and each individual voter ranks their top five candidates on
408-461: The organizations were at a "perfect understanding" and were co-operating closely. 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. On February 3 he felt well enough to travel and returned to Montreal the next day. However, he checked into Montreal General Hospital upon arrival and suffered another, fatal heart attack soon after. He
432-526: The players, he suspended and fined them each $ 200. 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
456-3408: The sulpiciens, John Jones, Pierre-Édouard Leclère Montreal Vindicator , 1832, Montréal, Édouard-Raymond Fabre , owner, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan , journalist The Montreal Museum or Journal of Literature and Arts , 1832, Montréal, Mary Graddon Gosselin , editor, Ludger Duvernay, printer L'Écho du pays , 1833, Saint-Charles, Pierre-Dominique Debartzch , founder, Alfred-Xavier Rambau , journalist L'Abeille canadienne , 1833, Quebec City, François-Xavier Garneau , founder, editor and J-B Fréchette, printer L'Impartial , 1834, Laprairie Le Glaneur, journal littéraire, d’agriculture et d’industrie , 1836, Saint-Charles (replaces L'Écho du pays) Le Télégraphe , 1836, Quebec City, Philippe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé and Napoléon Aubin , founders and editors Le Populaire , 1837, Montréal, Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury , Léon Gosselin , Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Hyacinthe Leblanc de Marconnay , chief editor Le Fantasque , 1837, Quebec City, Napoléon Aubin, founder and editor Le Libéral , 1837, Quebec City La Quotidienne , 1837, Montréal, François Lemaître Le Temps , 1838, Montréal The Literary Garland , 1838, Montréal L'Aurore des Canadas, Journal littéraire, politique et commercial , 1839, Montréal, Joseph-Guillaume Barthe , editor 1840–1899 [ edit ] L'Avenir , 1847 Le Pays , 1852 Canadian Illustrated News , Montreal, 1869 The Montreal Evening Star , later The Montreal Star , 1869 Le Cultivateur , Quebec City, 1974 The Gazette Megantic Edition , Inverness, 1899–1911 1900–1989 [ edit ] Le Nationaliste , 1904 Montreal Standard , 1905–1951 (became Weekend ) Le Cri de l'Est , Matane, 1911 The Monitor , Montreal, 1926 (converted to online-only in 2009) L'Illustration , 1930, Montréal (also known as L'Illustration Nouvelle and Montréal-Matin ) Dimanche-Matin , 1954, Montreal Sunday Express , circa 1973, Montreal Le Jour , 1974, Saint-Laurent Montreal Daily News , 1988, Montreal References [ edit ] http://www.unites.uqam.ca/arche/alaq/index.php?nomLien=603 http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/CS/livre-savant/imprime/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060505231757/http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/8/18/r18-215-e.html v t e List of defunct newspapers of Canada (by province or territory ) Provinces Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Territories Northwest Territories Nunavut Yukon [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Canada portal Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_defunct_newspapers_of_Quebec&oldid=1247346959 " Categories : Quebec-related lists Defunct newspapers published in Quebec Lists of newspapers published in Canada Lists of defunct newspapers Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
480-402: The time, Calder was the secretary-treasurer when Frank Robinson resigned as president of the NHA in 1917. Calder, the league secretary, saw an opportunity in the situation. He decided that the NHA owners allied against Livingstone needed someone to represent them, and, in effect, Calder was—at least for all practical purposes—the new president of the NHA. He arranged meetings between
504-478: The trophy was made permanent as the Calder Memorial Trophy . Calder received a silver service in 1937–38 for his 20 years as president of the NHL. In February 1938, Calder terminated the NHL's agreement with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) which governed signing of amateur players. He met with W. G. Hardy of the CAHA after a player suspended by the NHL was registered by
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#1732851974354528-559: Was adamant that minorities would not be restricted from participation in the NHL. During the 1927–28 season , upon hearing of the Boston Black Panthers , the first all-Black hockey team in the United States, he was reported to have remarked that, "Pro hockey has no ruling against the colored man, nor is it likely to ever draw the line," a reference to the segregation in baseball . Only one attempt to remove Calder as president of
552-592: Was born to Scottish parents in Bristol, England . He participated in many English sports as a youth, including rugby , cricket , handball , golf , and soccer . As a young man, he immigrated to Canada and became a teacher at a private school. Before leaving the United Kingdom , he flipped a coin to decide whether he should immigrate to Canada or to the United States. He married a fellow teacher, Amelia Cole, and they had three sons and one daughter. Calder worked as
576-521: Was implemented in 1979 to block Wayne Gretzky (who had played a single season in the World Hockey Association the year before) from winning the award. After the Calder win of 31-year-old Sergei Makarov in 1991 (following the influx of Eastern Bloc players after the fall of the Soviet Union ), the rules were further amended to require that winners be 26 years of age or younger. Further,
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