His hockey resume reads like a travelogue: 13 cities in five professional leagues covering four countries, not including the one he was born in.

These days he’s in Winnipeg, the only player at Jets training camp on what they call a PTO — a professional tryout offer.

Meet Danny Taylor, goaltender on the move — and international man of mystery.

Asked how he wound up here, the eight-year-pro handled the question like a low slapper from the point, deflecting it to the corner.

“That’s a good question,” Taylor began, after a long pause. “They just called me up and said... would you like to come into camp? I said yeah. We’ll just keep it at that.”

Asked what happened with his two-year contract with Farjestads of the Swedish Elite League last season — the best contract he’s had in hockey — he was equally cryptic.

“That’s the stuff I don’t want to get into,” Taylor said. “For both parties.”

As for what he’s hoping for here, that’ll stay behind the mask, too.

“I’m very goal-oriented, but at this point I’m going to keep that to myself,” he said. “I kind of like to fly under the radar as far as attention goes.”

It might not make for the best interview, but who doesn’t like a little intrigue?

Born in Great Britain 28 years ago, Taylor has been on the move ever since.

His junior career took him to Cumberland, Guelph and Kingston, in Ontario.

After the L.A. Kings drafted him in the seventh round in 2004, he’s only had one full season where he stayed with the same team — last year in Sweden.

But even that had a twist: hip surgery ended it in February.

Every other year, Taylor has been a human rubber ball, whether it’s bouncing from Bakersfield to Wheeling to Texas in the ECHL his first pro season, from the AHL to Hamburg, Germany in 2010-11 or from AHL Abbotsford to the Calgary Flames two years ago.

It was with the Flames Taylor picked up his first NHL victory, 4-2 over Vancouver, one of just three NHL games he’s played.

“It feels like yesterday,” he said. “It was just nice to get a few starts under my belt... because I always kind of put the NHL on a pedestal. But once you get out there you realize it’s the same game you’ve been playing your whole life.”

Taylor says he’s playing it better as he gets older, and the numbers back him up.

His one-and-a-half seasons with the Flames, he grabbed the starting AHL job with 2.21 and 2.05 goals against averages.

Yet, they couldn’t find room for him.

“I worked my way up there,” Taylor said. “It’s frustrating... when it’s a pure, result-oriented business, and I put up the results and still didn’t get what I wanted.”

What he’d like is a hockey home, for one thing. With a 20-month-old son and a second child due in November, this moving thing isn’t getting easier.

But the PTO may as well stand for Particularly Transient Occupation.

“My wife and I have been in this game together for a while,” Taylor said. “We know we can’t plan anything.”

Taylor dressed for the Jets’ second pre-season game, Wednesday, but didn’t play.

So he’ll bide his time, wait for his chance.

“He’s here competing for a contract,” Jets assistant GM Craig Heisinger said. “We’re short a goalie in our system... he’s the first in line for it and we’ll see if he can take advantage of it.

“At the end of the day his play will have to do the talking.”

That’s probably the way Taylor would prefer it.

“Sorry I’m not much of an interview,” the goalie said, finally. “Maybe as time goes on I can open up a little.”

Wherever that may be.

paul.friesen@sunmedia.ca

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