Beast Unleashed: Tylor Michel

Tylor (right) in Sweden

Before the Beast announce more player signings tomorrow I wanted to get up a bio on Tylor Michel.

Tylor is a 29 year old centre who is from Sudbury, Ontario.

Tylor started his career in the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League which was a Junior B level league. It is now a division in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (as of 2007). Tylor played for the Owen Sound Greys for both the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons.
In his time with Owen Sound he scored 54 goals, 77 assists and, 221 penalty minutes.

After his time in Owen Sound was over it was off to school for Tylor. He attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. During his first 3 season at the university (2004/05 to 2006/07) he scored 17 goals, 21 assists and, 39 PIM over 86 games.

2007/08 was a little different for Tylor. He played 37 games for Wayne State (22 points and 94 PIM) and ended up signing with the Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL. He played 4 games in the regular season (2 assists, 6 PIM) and went on to the playoffs where he played 6 more games and got 4 PIM.

In 2008/09 the Condors gave Tylor a full season to show them what he is made of. In 64 regular season games he scored 8 goals, 16 assists and, 60 PIM. The Condors would again make the playoffs and in 4 games Tylor played 4 games and got 4 PIM.

For 2009/10 Tylor headed off to the United Kingdom to play in the Elite Ice Hockey League for the Cardiff Devils. He spent both 2009/10 and 2010/11 with the Devils and scored 47 goals, 65 assists and, 283 PIM in 121 regular season games. Both seasons the Devils went to the playoffs. in 8 playoff games Tylor score 4 goals, 3 assists and, 6 PIM.

In 2011 Tylor moved to Sweden to play for IF Bjorkloven.
This was an interesting situation as the team he was moving to was ready to be promoted to division 1  in Sweden for the 2010/11 season but, due to financial issues the team had to declare bankruptcy. As a result of this the Swedish Ice Hockey Association relegated IF Bjorkloven to the 3rd division. Going into 2011/12 the team was finally allowed to move to division 1. So Tylor was joining a team that jumped up 2 divisions for 2011/12. As for Tylor, he scored 29 points and 110 PIM over his 36 games in Sweden. He was also the most penalized player in the league. In the Kval, a round robin tournament in Sweden to determine what division the clubs play in the next season,  Tylor scored 2 goals, 3 assists and , 6 PIM over 5 games.

2012/13 brought Tylor back to the U.K. and the Eilte Ice Hockey League to play for the Sheffield Steelers. In 59 games he scored 24 goals, 27 assists and, 139 PIM. The playoffs only brought 2 games for Tylor but he scored 2 goals, 1 assist and, 4 PIM. This year the Steelers also competed in the Challenge Cup. It is a side tournament that the EIHL hosts. In 6 games there Tylor scored 3 goals, 3 assists and, 38 PIM.

Tylor is coming back home for 2013/14 to play for the Beast and hopefully can mesh well with a player like Jason Pitton who also spent time in the EIHL.