team at the Olympics or future years with operating deficits. The CAHA resumed giving grants to its branches to promote minor hockey that had stopped during the Great Depression and also resumed alternating the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup finals between Eastern Canada and Western Canada instead of only limiting host cities to the most profitable locations. CAHA past-president Duncan was succeeded by W. G. Hardy as CAHA president on April 18, 1938, and remained on the CAHA executive as its past-president until April 1940. Duncan continued to serve as the LIHG vice president until 1939. He was a guest at the CAHA silver jubilee hosted at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg, where eleven of thirteen past presidents were in attendance. Duncan was critical of the CAHA agreement signed with the NHL that went into effect in 1939. He had refused to sign the agreement while president since he felt it would have let the NHL control players as it wanted. He was opposed to the general trafficking of players into the NHL and players being placed unknowingly on negotiation lists for professional teams without compensation to amateur teams. He referenced the case of Eddie Finnigan who was suspended for a year by the CAHA since the NHL wanted financial compensation for unfinished contractual services when he retired, which led to the NHL asking the contract be bought out for the player to be reinstated as an amateur. In 1940, Duncan recommended for CAHA members and hockey officials to finance a weekly CBC Radio show to communicate hockey scores and highlights for the Canadian soldiers overseas during World War II. As a follow-up to the changes in the LIHG constitution, he proposed to change the CAHA constitution to read, "governing body of hockey in Canada in accordance with the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace", instead of the association being only the governing body of amateur hockey in Canada. He also wanted to expand intermediate division playoffs in Canada and recommended that the intermediate champion of Quebec play against similar teams from the Maritimes, instead of the higher level senior hockey champion from Quebec. Impact on ice hockey rules Duncan submitted several recommendations while on the CAHA rules committee in 1933, and sought for consistency with the NHL's playing rules. He recommended to allow the forward pass in all three zones instead of an offside infraction, to allow kicking