February 14, 2008

Feature: Davenport Discusses Defense

The following article featuring Cornell junior Taylor Davenport appeared in the February 14 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.

By Michael Mix

Junior Taylor Davenport may be a lot of things - a defenseman on the men's hockey team, someone who has recorded a positive +/- in every year of his college career and a charitable person off the ice. But there is one thing he is definitely not - Cornell junior goalie Troy Davenport's brother.

"Everyone is always ‘are you guys brothers? Are you guys brothers?' ‘No, no,'" Davenport said. "They always ask how many brothers we have on the team, and they always count Troy and myself, so I have to correct them all the time. ... One time, I was talking to my parents after a game. I don't know where we were playing but they were listening to a game ... it was the other team's announcer. He was going on about how Troy and Taylor were brothers. My parents called me after and were like ‘what's going on?'"

While that announcer created a nonexistent familial relationship, Taylor Davenport initially became a hockey fan after his actual family took him to a game involving a now-nonexistent hockey team. The Okotoks, Alb., native went to a Winnipeg Jets home contest when he was young, and was immediately hooked by the game. Inspired by then-Jets players Teemu Selanne and Mike Eagles and undeterred by Winnipeg's subsequent move to Phoenix, Davenport knew he wanted to play hockey."

Complete article can be accessed via the Sun Web site by clicking here.