Career
A career minor leaguer, he played 3 games for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League in the 1951-1952 season. Lloyd Ailsby played junior hockey in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan for the Moose Jaw Canucks in 1934-1935, and the following year for the Regina Capitals of the Southern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League. In 1936, he was first signed by the New York Rangers, and played for their affiliate teams, the New York Rovers and Philadelphia Ramblers for the next few years.
With the outbreak of World World War II, Ailsby served with the Canadian military, and missed a couple of seasons.
Ailsby was a Second Team All Star every year he played for Saint Paul. In 1951, the Rangers brought him back to the Rovers, and installed him as a playing coach for them.
In December 1951, the Rangers called him up, and he played three games for them, wearing number 17, without scoring any points. Ailsby returned to the Rovers, and went on to serve as playing coach in Seattle and later with the Johnstown Jets of the EHL. He was named an EHL First Team All Star in 1957.
He returned to the Rovers as a non-playing coach in 1960-1961, and was replaced after the season by Rovers defenceman John Muckler, as another playing coach for the newly renamed Long Island Ducks.