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.
[1] 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 in 1979–80.
[2] 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.
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.
Dean Chynoweth was a National Hockey League player and coach of the Lake Erie Monsters.