Danny Taylor (ice hockey)

Daniel " Danny" Taylor ( born April 28, 1986 in Plymouth, England ) is a British professional ice hockey goaltender who is under contract with Färjestad BK Svenska Hockey ligands since May 2013.

Career

Daniel Taylor began his career as a hockey player in Canada's top junior league Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Guelph Storm Kingston Frontenacs 2003-2006, where he in 2003/04 season with Guelph the J. Ross Robertson Cup won. During this period he was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 2004 when a total of 221 ​​players from the Los Angeles Kings.

First, however, the goalkeeper was in the 2006/07 season in the ECHL for the Bakersfield Condors, Wheeling Nailers and Texas Wildcatters between the posts, before he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League for the Kings in the following season. However, this was his only use in the NHL team Los Angeles this season, so he spent the rest of the season with their farm team, the Reading Royals of the ECHL and the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League, with the Briton in the season 2008/ 09 again alternately played for Reading and Manchester.

In the 2009/10 season, Taylor went mostly for the Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL on the ice, but also came to nine AHL appearances for Syracuse Crunch. The season 2010/11 season he joined the Springfield Falcons before he was hired in November 2010, on the recommendation of the LA Kings of the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the Hanseatic League he was until end of season in 28 games on the ice, of which his team won and lost each 14. With a quota of 90.5 percent, it had a Gegentorschnitt of 2.90 per game. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he returned to the AHL with the Springfield Falcons back. In December 2011 he transferred within the league to the Abbotsford Heat.

Awards and achievements

  • 2004 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Guelph Storm

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)

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