Toronto (OPHL)

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The Toronto Professional Hockey Club was Toronto's first professional ice hockey team. They played in Canada's first fully professional ice hockey league the Ontario Professional Hockey League, for two seasons, 1908 and 1909.

The team featured several prominent players of the time, including Newsy Lalonde who would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Bruce Ridpath, who would manage the Toronto entry in the NHA, fore-runner of the NHL.

On March 14, 1908, the team played the Montreal Wanderers in Montreal for the Stanley Cup. The Wanderers won 6-4.

[edit] Toronto March 1908 Stanley Cup Challenge Roster

  • Tyner, Chuck (goal)
  • Corbeau, Con (point)
  • Young, Rowley (coverpoint)
  • Morrison, (forward)
  • Lalonde, Newsy (forward)
  • Ridpath, Bruce (forward)
  • Mercer, Wally (forward)
  • Marks, Jack (sub)

[edit] References

  • Coleman, Charles (1966). Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol.1, 1983-1926 inc. 
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