Tommy Gorman

Tommy Gorman (1886 to 1961), known as T.P., was a Canadian ice hockey executive, sports entrepreneur and athlete. Born in Ottawa, he was the youngest member of the Canadian lacrosse team that won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, where only two teams competed, and he then played lacrosse professionally for a number of seasons. He worked as a sports writer and later sports editor at the Ottawa Citizen until 1921, then moved into hockey management and was a founder of the National Hockey League in 1917. He won the Stanley Cup seven times as a general manager with four teams, among them the Ottawa Senators in 1920, 1921 and 1923 and the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934, and he also managed the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico from 1929 to 1932.