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Taylor lyre
Date of birth February 15, 1994
place of birth Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 179 cm
Weight 80 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 4th round, 117th position
Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2009-2011 Saskatoon Contacts
2011-2014 Portland Winterhawks
2014-2019 Philadelphia Flyers
Lehigh Valley Phantoms
since 2019 Rochester Americans

Taylor Leier (born February 15, 1994 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League since February 2020 and with their farm team, the Rochester Americans from American Hockey, since January 2019 League , playing in the position of the left winger .

Career

Leier spent his youth in his hometown, where he played for local teams until the summer of 2011. For the 2011/12 season he moved to the Western Hockey League . There he ran for the following three years for the Portland Winterhawks , with which he won the Ed Chynoweth Cup in 2013. The year before he had been selected in the fourth round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in 117th place by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League . They had then signed him in September 2013 and, after another year with the juniors, started the 2014/15 season with their farm team , the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , in the American Hockey League .

After Leier had spent his entire rookie year there, he was appointed to the NHL squad in Philadelphia for the first time during the 2015/16 season and made six appearances over the course of the season . Mainly he continued to play for Lehigh Valley in the AHL. In the following year, the striker commuted between the NHL and AHL squads before making the permanent jump into the NHL squad of the Philadelphia Flyers for the 2017/18 season . There he was mostly the 13th striker in the squad and often found himself in the stands, so that he only played 39 games. At the beginning of the 2018/19 season , the Canadian was transferred back to the AHL. After playing there again for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms until January 2019, he was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in exchange for Justin Bailey , where he was on the Rochester Americans farm team .

In June 2019, he signed a purely AHL-limited contract with the Americans for the following season. He received a contract from their NHL cooperation partner, the Buffalo Sabers , in February 2020 until the end of the 2019/20 season. In the NHL he was not used in the episode.

International

Leier represented his home country at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2014 in Malmö, Sweden . He remained pointless in seven tournament games and finished fourth with the Canadians.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2011/12 Portland Winterhawks WHL 72 13 24 37 36 22nd 5 2 7th 12
2012/13 Portland Winterhawks WHL 64 27 35 62 63 21st 9 7th 16 12
2013 Portland Winterhawks Memorial Cup 3 1 2 3 0
2013/14 Portland Winterhawks WHL 62 37 42 79 42 21st 6th 20th 26th 10
2014/15 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 73 13 18th 31 18th - - - - -
2015/16 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 71 20th 29 49 37 - - - - -
2015/16 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 6th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2016/17 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 48 13 24 37 16 5 1 0 1 2
2016/17 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 10 1 1 2 4th - - - - -
2017/18 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 39 1 4th 5 6th - - - - -
2018/19 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 34 10 9 19th 26th - - - - -
2018/19 Rochester Americans AHL 35 12 11 23 20th 3 0 1 1 0
2019/20 Rochester Americans AHL 27 11 6th 17th 4th - - - - -
WHL overall 198 77 101 178 141 64 20th 29 49 34
AHL total 288 79 97 176 121 8th 1 1 2 2
NHL overall 55 2 5 7th 10 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2014 Canada U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 0 0 0 6th
Juniors overall 7th 0 0 0 6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Lyre, Taylor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Saskatoon , Saskatchewan