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EditCyclone Taylor
Portage Lakes Hockey Club - International Professional Hockey League / IPHL - 1906
Taylor joined his first professional Hockey club, thanks to a $3,000 salary offer from the Portage Lakes Hockey Club in Houghton, Michigan, which played in the International Professional Hockey League.
Taylor arrived in the latter part of the 1905-06 season in time to score 11 goals in 6 games and help the club win the IPHL championship with a 19-5 record.
He returned for the 1906-07 season and scored 14 times in 23 games as Portage Lakes again won the championship, this time with a record of 16-8. With professional teams now starting up in Canada, many of the players preferred to play closer to home and the IPHL disbanded before the start of the next season.