Name Billy Taylor Parents Billy Taylor Height 1.85 m | Died 1979 Role Ice hockey player | |
William Gordon Taylor (October 14, 1942 in Kincaid, Saskatchewan – September 8, 1979) was a professional ice hockey centre who played two games in the National Hockey League. He is the son of the former NHL hockey player, Billy Taylor Sr.
Playing career
Taylor spent most of his playing career in various minor leagues on various teams from 1960 to 1968. He managed to play only two games in the NHL for the New York Rangers during the 1964–65 NHL season, recording no points.
After retirement as a player, he spent one season, 1971–72, as a head coach for the Guelph CMC's of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. That season the CMC's went on to win the Mannitoba Centennial Cup as National Tier II Junior "A" Champions under the watch of Taylor.
According to the New York Rangers' website, he died on 8 September 1979