Lawyer of the Day: James Creighton
In an homage to the start of the NHL conference semifinals today, the Lawyer of the Day is James Creighton. Creighton, a Canadian lawyer in the late 1800s, helped found and popularize modern ice hockey while he was a law student at McGill University in Montreal. Here is his stub bio from Wikipedia:
James George Alywin Creighton (Born: 1850 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Died: 1930) was one the men originally responsible for the early popularization of ice hockey. Creighton developed the game from a similar game known as shinney in Halifax, where (according to some historians) it was developed out of an Irish game called hurley. In 1873 Creighton moved to Montreal to work and eventually attended McGill University, graduating in 1880 with a law degree. There, on March 3, 1875, the first organized game of ice hockey was played and the game's popularity grew significantly. He practised law with a firm in Montreal. In 1884 Creighton moved to Ottawa to become a law clerk in the Canadian Senate. He formed a team called the Rideau Hall Rebels, and became friends with teammates William and Arthur Stanley, sons of then Canadian Governor General Lord Stanley.
Creighton would happy to know that his sport has been taken over by the American Southeast (the last two Stanley Cup Champions are the Carolina Hurricanes and the Tampa Bay Lightning). Fortunately for you hockey purists out there, the Southeastern teams have already lost this year, and Canada has two chances (Vancouver and Ottawa) to take the Cup back.
(16) Comments
Let's just suspend the blog until Lat gets back. It's getting pretty bad.
Lame.
Shouldn't LOD be someone ALIVE?
Go Habs Go! (next year)
HOCKEY?! Baseball or football I could mayeb understand but... it's spring dude
not to mention the sabres (buffalo) still in it; buffalo is basically canadian.
Actually only one as Vancouver will lose shortly
Laziest post ever. Pretty much a straight copy from Wikipedia. What a fucking joke.
looks like it took him a while to graduate law school. must have spent a lot of time playing hockey.
This post is so riddled with typos it is almost unreadable. Who is this Billy Merck fool anyway?
What's hockey?
Wow, great. Citing Wikipedia in a blog? That's almost as good as citing it in a Supreme Court brief.
This post is mildly interesting, but "Lawyer of the Day" usually goes to lawyers who implode spectacularly. Like, say, the law prof/kiddy porn accusee Murdaugh Stuart Madden Jr. you featured earlier - why wasn't he the Lawyer of the Day?
Anyway, the NHL has sucked since Gary Bettman (another lawyer who couldn't hack it in private practive) took over as Commissioner. The lockout and Olympic competitions have been the most interesting things about the NHL lately.
GO SENS GO
7:50--"another lawyer who couldn't hack it in private practice"? Lame. Bettman has a cooler job than approximately 100% of the BIGLAW partners in the country. Marty Lipton probably makes more money, but M&A <<<<< running a major pro sports league.
Creighton would be rolling in his grave after the lockout, where both sides managed to shoot the sport in the foot and marginalize it.
Canadians are irrelevant.