The Calgary Flames defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 Sunday in the National Hockey League.
Netminder Danny Taylor won his first NHL game for the Flames.
Danny Taylor………
You want to talk about a long road to the NHL, how about these stops for the 26 year old Taylor as a professional;
Bakersfield, Wheeling, the Texas Wildcats, Reading, Manchester, Gwinnett, Syracuse, Springfield, Hamburg & Abbottsford, and now he has 3 NHL games to his credit.
Of course before he hit pro, Taylor who was born in Plymouth, England, started his OHL career with the Guelph Storm and was a central figure in one of the most memorable goals in Attack playoff history.
In 2004, the underdog Attack met the Storm in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs.
Almost as expected, the Storm won the first two games but Robert Gherson came up big for Owen Sound in the next two games and Guelph in turn changed goalies and inserted Taylor instead of Adam Dennis
Taylor won Game 5 at Guelph, and then back in Owen Sound the next night for Game 6, the teams were tied late, apparently heading to overtime, when Mike Angelidis lofted a dump in from center ice that somehow fooled Taylor and allowed Owen Sound to tie the series and force Game 7.
There may have been louder moments at the JD McArthur Arena, but any discussion of significant goals in Owen Sound’s OHL history has to include the Angelidis marker on Guelph’s Danny Taylor in 2004.
I’m Fred Wallace