The Sydney Millioniares Professional Hockey Club 1912-1915

Ken Randall was considered Sydney's best player during his time in Cape Breton. Ken was signed away from the National Hockey Association's Toronto Blueshirts by Millionaire team manager C.B. Ross and joined the team half way through the 1913 season. Ken played for the Millionaires until the collapse of the Maritime Professional Hockey Association in 1915. Ken went on to play many years in the NHL after it was formed in 1917

James J. Curry was elected first president of the Sydney Hockey Club in 1912. At thirty-nine years of age, Curry was currently the city clerk of Sydney and was most likely chosen president because of his political and business connections. Acting as city clerk would also give Curry the needed administrative experience it would take to run a professional hockey club. Mr. Curry was a resident of Sydney living at 34 Amelia Street in Sydney’s North End.

Sydney Millionaires vs. Glace Bay Miners...first game ever In January 2015 the big news in Industrial Cape Breton was the first ever scheduled game between the Sydney Millionaires and the Glace Bay Miners. This game was to be the beginning of a rivalry between two teams that would last several decades in many different leagues. The Miners were set to play the Millionaires on Monday, January 22nd in Sydney and Tuesday, January 23rd in Glace Bay. The original schedule of Fri...day night games in Sydney and Saturday night games in Glace Bay were dropped because of a New Glasgow Black Foxes objection about their team being away from home for eight consecutive weekends. From all accounts the first meeting of these two teams exceeded expectation with a hard and fast game decided in the last 10 minutes of play. Glace Bay, with the strong play of Jimmy Fraser and Andy Kyle were able to defeat the Millionaires by a score of five to three in front of a large shocked and disappointed crowd in Sydney. The following night, in the Alexandra Arena in Glace Bay, the Miners again defeated the Millionaires by a score of 6 to 3. The Miners were strengthened by the signing of Con Corbeau who had played defense for the Stanley Cup Champions Toronto Blueshirts the previous year. Corbeau had been playing with the Canadiens and looked as if he would stay with the NHA club when he left for Cape Breton. Speculation was that the Miners offered Corbeau a "bunch of long green to attract him to Cape Breton at this stage of the season" The Millionaires next game was in New Glasgow and again they were defeated and were sitting at the bottom of the standings of the three team league. Read more about it: https://www.amazon.com/History-Sydney-Milliona//1530330866

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Sydney’s bid for a Professional Hockey Club In the fall of 1912, a group of prominent Sydney businessmen began the process towards the acquisition of a professional hockey franchise for Sydney, Nova Scotia. These Sydney elite were spurred on by the near completion of Sydney’s first indoor arena. This arena located on Inglis street just off of Townsend Street was designed to accommodate nearly three thousand spectators to an event. A local paper describes the rink as "having...Continue reading

Toby was one of the initial founders of the Sydney Millionaires team. He represented Sydney's interest at the MPHA meetings while they were attempting to secure a franchise. Toby went on to play goalie for the Millionaires during the 1913 season and many believed that it was his strong play in nets that lead the Millionaires to the Maritime Championship and to their Stanley Cup Challenge.

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