Tim Taylor (ice hockey)
Tim Taylor ( born February 6, 1969 in Stratford, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his active period from 1986 to 2007 included for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League has played. His brother Chris is also a professional hockey player.
Career
Tim Taylor began his career as a hockey player with the London Knights, which until 1989 he was active from 1986 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the second round than a total of 36 players from the Washington Capitals for which, however, he never played. Instead, he ran from 1989 to 1993 for their farm team, the Baltimore Skipjacks, in the American Hockey League on before he was released on 29 January 1993 in exchange for Eric Murano to the Vancouver Canucks, where he again until the end of the season exclusively for their AHL farm team Hamilton Canucks stand on the ice. On 28 July 1993 Taylor received as a free agent contract with the Detroit Red Wings, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1993/94 season, where he scored his first goal in the NHL scored on his single use. He spent the rest of the season in the AHL farm team Adirondack Red Wings.
From 1994 to 1997 Taylor played three more years for the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he won the prestigious Stanley Cup in the 1996/97 season. He then spent two seasons each with the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers before he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning on 30 June 2001 in exchange for Kyle Freadrich and Nils Ekman, with whom he in the season 2003/ 04 for the second time in his career, won the Stanley Cup. During the lockout the following year, the Canadian paused with ice hockey, before he subsequently went aground for the Lightning. In September 2006 he was appointed to the Team Captain. This office he filled from in the season 2006 /07. In the following summer break, however, he had to undergo as a result of hip dysplasia surgery, which forced him the entire 2007/08 season to complain about. Yet he remained until his retirement in the summer of 2008 captain of the Lightning.