Danny Taylor (ice hockey)

Daniel Taylor (born April 28, 1986) is an English-born Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted in the seventh round (221st overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings and has appeared in four NHL games with the Kings, Calgary Flames, and Ottawa Senators.
==Playing career==
Taylor spent three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League playing for the Guelph Storm and Kingston Frontenacs before moving onto professional hockey. Taylor spent the majority of the 2007–08 season with the Manchester Monarchs of the AHL. He played in 23 games, posting a 13–5–2 record. He also had a 2.40 GAA, 0.921 save percentage and recorded four shut-outs. He earned a recall to the Kings, and made his NHL debut on March 29, 2008, in relief of starting goaltender Erik Ersberg. Taylor played the third period, giving up two goals in what was a 7–2 loss to the Dallas Stars. Taylor returned to the Monarchs for the 2008–09 season and played 15 games, recording a 7–4–2 record. That year he had a 2.66 GAA and a 0.909 save percentage.
For the 2009–10 season Taylor was signed to a professional try-out agreement by the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. He played in nine games that year for the Crunch, posting a 2–4–0 record before he was released from the agreement. He also had a 3.63 GAA and 0.896 save percentage.
The next year, Taylor signed with the Springfield Falcons. Taylor stayed with the team for the 2010–11 season and played in four games, having a 2–2–0 record. He had a 2.35 GAA and a 0.929 save percentage. He played the remainder of the season in Germany with the Hamburg Freezers. Taylor returned to the Falcons for the 2011–12 season. In ten games with Springfield he posted a 5–3–0 record with a 2.58 GAA and a .914 save percentage, but there was a crowded crease in Springfield with Taylor, Manny Legace, and Allen York, and Taylor was bounced out. But it did not take long for him to get signed as he was picked up by the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL.
On August 10, 2012, Taylor was extended by the Heat to a one-year contract for the 2012–13 season. He was among the AHL's goaltending leaders midway through the season with a second-best GAA of 1.77 and was fourth in save percentage at .930 when an injury to Calgary Flames' goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff led the Flames to sign Taylor to an NHL contract on February 6 and recall him to Calgary. He spent several days with the Flames, but was returned to Abbotsford without seeing action. However, he was again recalled to Calgary on February 16, replacing Leland Irving as the backup goaltender to Joey MacDonald.
Five years after his first NHL game, Taylor finally made his second appearance (and first NHL start) on February 18, 2013, against the Phoenix Coyotes. He made 37 saves, but the Flames lost the game 4–0. In his second start, on March 3, Taylor earned his first NHL victory with a 4–2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
A free agent following the season, Taylor chose to go to Sweden. He signed a contract to play with Färjestad BK in the SHL for the 2013–14 season and helped the team reach the finals. He then spent the 2014-15 season with HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), before joining fellow KHL side Medvescak Zagreb. In the course of the 2015–16 campaign, he was transferred to Czech outfit HC Sparta Praha.
On July 6, 2016, the Zagreb team announced that Taylor would return for the 2016–17 season. On October 20, 2016, he transferred to fellow KHL side HC Sibir Novosibirsk.
On July 1, 2017, Taylor returned to Canada as a free agent, in agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract with the Ottawa Senators. Taylor spent most of the season with Ottawa's American Hockey League affiliate in Belleville, but was called up three games before the end of the season and played in the final game of the season against the Boston Bruins.
On April 27, 2018, Taylor returned to Russia and signed with HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the KHL for whom he played before coming to the NHL.
==Career statistics==
 	 	 		Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season		Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs
Season 	Team 	League 		GP 	W 	L 	T/OT 	MIN 	GA 	SO 	GAA 	SV% 		GP 	W 	L 	MIN 	GA 	SO 	GAA 	SV%
2003–04 	Guelph Storm 	OHL 		26 	16 	4 	3 	1462 	66 	0 	2.71 	.900 		3 	1 	1 	159 	9 	0 	3.40 	.857
2004–05 	Guelph Storm 	OHL 		31 	13 	14 	3 	1821 	80 	2 	2.64 	.911 		1 	0 	1 	59 	4 	0 	4.07 	.900
2005–06 	Kingston Frontenacs 	OHL 		57 	32 	15 	6 	3319 	172 	3 	3.11 	.911 		5 	2 	3 	300 	14 	1 	2.80 	.918
2006–07 	Bakersfield Condors 	ECHL 		17 	7 	7 	2 	969 	70 	0 	4.33 	.872 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2006–07 	Wheeling Nailers 	ECHL 		1 	0 	0 	1 	62 	4 	0 	3.86 	.833 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2006–07 	Texas Wildcatters 	ECHL 		2 	0 	1 	0 	74 	2 	0 	1.61 	.905 		6 	3 	1 	359 	15 	0 	2.51 	.917
2007–08 	Manchester Monarchs 	AHL 		23 	13 	5 	2 	1275 	51 	4 	2.40 	.921 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2007–08 	Reading Royals 	ECHL 		5 	3 	0 	0 	182 	8 	0 	2.63 	.917 		13 	7 	6 	815 	38 	1 	2.80 	.906
2007–08 	Los Angeles Kings 	NHL 		1 	0 	0 	0 	20 	2 	0 	6.00 	.800 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2008–09 	Reading Royals 	ECHL 		23 	3 	17 	1 	1257 	83 	0 	3.96 	.881 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2008–09 	Manchester Monarchs 	AHL 		15 	7 	4 	2 	744 	33 	0 	2.66 	.909 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2009–10 	Gwinnett Gladiators 	ECHL 		37 	18 	13 	5 	2181 	126 	1 	3.47 	.902 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2009–10 	Syracuse Crunch 	AHL 		9 	2 	4 	0 	397 	24 	0 	3.63 	.896 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2010–11 	Springfield Falcons 	AHL 		4 	2 	2 	0 	230 	9 	0 	2.35 	.929 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2010–11 	Hamburg Freezers 	DEL 		28 	14 	14 	0 	1678 	81 	1 	2.90 	.905 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2011–12 	Springfield Falcons 	AHL 		10 	5 	3 	0 	512 	22 	0 	2.58 	.914 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2011–12 	Abbotsford Heat 	AHL 		33 	17 	10 	3 	1815 	67 	5 	2.21 	.927 		7 	4 	3 	426 	16 	0 	2.26 	.917
2012–13 	Abbotsford Heat 	AHL 		40 	18 	10 	2 	2108 	72 	3 	2.05 	.922 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2012–13 	Calgary Flames 	NHL 		2 	1 	1 	0 	120 	6 	0 	3.00 	.912 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2013–14 	Färjestad BK 	SHL 		16 	4 	11 	0 	958 	37 	0 	2.32 	.917 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2014–15 	Dinamo Minsk 	KHL 		19 	11 	6 	2 	1146 	53 	1 	2.77 	.904 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2015–16 	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL 		38 	16 	14 	3 	2079 	79 	3 	2.28 	.924 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2015–16 	HC Sparta Praha 	ELH 		7 	6 	1 	0 	374 	16 	0 	2.57 	.904 		3 	1 	2 	135 	10 	0 	4.44 	.833
2016–17 	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL 		17 	7 	5 	3 	968 	36 	1 	2.23 	.930 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2016–17 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	KHL 		29 	12 	11 	0 	1540 	45 	5 	1.75 	.940 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2017–18 	Belleville Senators 	AHL 		32 	11 	15 	3 	1772 	93 	1 	3.15 	.900 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2017–18 	Ottawa Senators 	NHL 		1 	0 	1 	0 	59 	4 	0 	4.14 	.882 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2018–19 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	KHL 		33 	9 	20 	1 	1767 	83 	3 	2.82 	.914 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2019–20 	Dinamo Minsk 	KHL 		20 	3 	14 	0 	935 	62 	0 	3.98 	.867 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
NHL totals	NHL totals 	NHL totals		4 	1 	2 	0 	199 	12 	0 	3.63 	.893 		— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	—
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
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