While living and working in Ottawa, Creighton continued his interest in ice hockey and joined with young parliamentarians and government 'aides de camp' to form a team called the Rideau Hall Rebels, after the residence of the Governor General of Canada, in Ottawa. That team played games in and around Ottawa and became well known. Creighton befriended teammates Edward and Arthur Stanley, sons of then Canadian Governor General Lord Stanley, as well as Judge John Augustus Barron (later a forming member of the OHA). In 1892, Lord Stanley presented a trophy – the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, known today as the Stanley Cup – to designate the amateur ice hockey championship of Canada.