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{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey executive (1941–2008)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox ice hockey biography
|halloffame = 2008 (Builder)
| name = Ed Chynoweth
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|12|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dodsland, Saskatchewan]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|4|22|1941|12|14|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada
| occupation = President of the WHL (1972–95) <br /> President of the CHL (1975–95) <br /> Director of the CHL <br /> Team owner (1995-his death)
}}

'''Edward Chynoweth''' (December 14, 1941 – April 22, 2008) was a Canadian [[ice hockey]] executive. He served as president of the [[Western Hockey League]] and the [[Canadian Hockey League]] for over 20 years each. He was also a league director, team owner, and reported by [[The Canadian Press]] to have been one of the most influential men in [[junior ice hockey]] in Canada.<ref name="CP">{{cite news|title=Major junior hockey pioneer Ed Chynoweth dies of cancer at age 66 |url=http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVmaWSqNcD_fsY00ek-JgpCbvInA |publisher=Canadian Press |date=2008-04-23 |access-date=2008-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504105619/http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVmaWSqNcD_fsY00ek-JgpCbvInA |archive-date=May 4, 2008 }}</ref>

==Career==
Chynoweth became the WHL's first full-time president in 1972, a job he held until 1995, except for a brief stint as the general manager of the [[Calgary Wranglers (WHL)|Calgary Wranglers]] in [[1979–80 WHL season|1979–80]].<ref name="TSN">{{cite news |title=FORMER WHL PRESIDENT CHYNOWETH PASSES AWAY |url=https://www.tsn.ca/chl/story/?id=235469&lid=sublink04&lpos=headlines_main |publisher=TSN |date=2008-04-22 |access-date=2008-04-24}}</ref> Chynoweth also helped to form the CHL in 1972, bringing Canada's three major junior leagues under one banner, and served as its president from 1975 until 1995.<ref name="CP" /> [[Ontario Hockey League]] commissioner [[David Branch (ice hockey)|David Branch]] called Chynoweth "the architect of the Canadian Hockey League as we know it today."<ref name="TSN" /> Chynoweth left his posts to form the expansion [[Edmonton Ice]] in 1995. He remained the team's president and governor after it became the [[Kootenay Ice]], as well as the WHL's chairman of the board, at the time of his death.<ref name="cup">{{cite web |url=http://www.whl.ca/about/?id=7631 |title=Ed Chynoweth Cup |access-date=2008-04-24 |work=Western Hockey League |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080418051750/http://whl.ca/about/?id=7631  |archive-date = 2008-04-18}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Chynoweth was married to Linda and had two sons. [[Dean Chynoweth]] was a [[National Hockey League]] player and coach of the [[Lake Erie Monsters]]. Jeff Chynoweth was a general manager of the [[Calgary Hitmen]].<ref name="CP" />

Chynoweth died of kidney [[cancer]] in Calgary at the age of 66.<ref name="CP" />

==Honours and awards==
Chynoweth was elected to the [[Alberta Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2000.<ref name="CP" /> In 2007, the WHL renamed its championship trophy the [[Ed Chynoweth Cup]] in his honour.<ref name="cup" /> The [[Ed Chynoweth Trophy]], awarded to the top scorer at the [[Memorial Cup]] tournament is named after him. Chynoweth was a member of the selection committee at the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |title=CHL mourns passing of Ed Chynoweth |url=http://www.sootoday.com/content/sports/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=31601 |publisher=Soo Today |date=2008-04-22 |access-date=2008-04-24}}</ref>

Chynoweth was posthumously inducted as a builder into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] in [[Toronto]] on November 10, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind08prolog.htm|title=Hockey Hall of Fame Announces 2008 Inductees|date=2008-06-17|access-date=2008-06-17|publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623073941/http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind08prolog.htm|archive-date=2008-06-23}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

{{Canadian Hockey League}}
{{WHL Commissioner}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:1941 births]]
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[[Category:Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Canadian Hockey League executives]]
[[Category:Canadian people of Cornish descent]]
[[Category:Canadian sports executives and administrators]]
[[Category:Deaths from cancer in Alberta]]
[[Category:Deaths from kidney cancer in Canada]]
[[Category:Hockey Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan]]
[[Category:Western Hockey League executives]]

Ed Chynoweth - Revision history

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