Brett Connolly

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Brett Connolly
Date of birth May 2, 1992
place of birth Campbell River , British Columbia , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2010 , 1st round, 6th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2007-2011 Prince George Cougars
2011-2015 Tampa Bay Lightning
2015-2016 Boston Bruins
2016-2019 Washington Capitals
since 2019 Florida panthers

Brett Connolly (born May 2, 1992 in Campbell River , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . With the Washington Capitals , he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs . He was previously active in the NHL for the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins .

Career

Connolly in the jersey of the Prince George Cougars

The Prince George raised Connolly was selected in 2007 in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League in tenth place by his hometown club, the Prince George Cougars , and initially played for the Cariboo Cougars in the British Columbia Major Midget League . In the 2008/09 season he was a permanent member of the Prince George Cougars squad in the WHL for the first time. There he was awarded the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the league and the CHL Rookie of the Year Award in his first year after scoring 60 points in 65 games. In the following season he completed only 16 games in the WHL due to an injury. In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected sixth by the Tampa Bay Lightning . For the 2010/11 season he was named captain of the Prince George Cougars and was his team's top scorer with 73 points.

After signing a three-year entry - level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning on July 1, 2011 , he made his debut in the Bolts' first season game on October 7, 2011 against the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League, where he stood on the ice for over 14 minutes.

After almost four years at the Tampa Bay Lightning, he was handed over to the Boston Bruins in March 2015 , with Tampa receiving the second-round voting rights in the 2015 and 2016 NHL Entry Drafts . After the 2015/16 season, his contract in Boston was not renewed, so Connolly joined the Washington Capitals as a free agent in July 2016 . In the summer of 2017, he extended his expiring one-year contract for another two years. In the following playoffs in 2018 , Connolly won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals . In the following season 2018/19 the winger recorded his best NHL statistic by far with 46 points, but was unable to agree with Washington on another contract extension. He subsequently joined the Florida Panthers as a free agent in July 2019 , with whom he is expected to receive an annual salary of $ 3.25 million over the next four seasons.

International

During his season as a rookie in the WHL, Connolly took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge for Team Canada Pacific , where he won the silver medal. In the same year he was appointed to the Canadian U18 national team for the first time, with which he took part in the 2009 U18 World Junior Championship as the youngest player in the team . In 2011 he was part of the Canadian squad at the U20 Junior World Championship , which won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Connolly in the Lightning jersey (2012)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2007/08 Cariboo Cougars BCMML 38 16 16 32 80 6th 4th 1 5 10
2007/08 Prince George Cougars WHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Prince George Cougars WHL 65 30th 30th 60 38 4th 0 2 2 6th
2009/10 Prince George Cougars WHL 16 10 9 19th 8th - - - - -
2010/11 Prince George Cougars WHL 59 46 27 73 26th 1 0 0 0 0
2011/12 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 68 4th 11 15th 30th - - - - -
2012/13 Syracuse crunch AHL 71 31 32 63 53 18th 6th 5 11 12
2012/13 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 5 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Syracuse crunch AHL 66 21st 36 57 50 - - - - -
2013/14 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 11 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
2014/15 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 50 12 3 15th 38 - - - - -
2014/15 Boston Bruins NHL 5 0 2 2 10 - - - - -
2015/16 Boston Bruins NHL 71 9 16 25th 20th - - - - -
2016/17 Washington Capitals NHL 66 15th 8th 23 40 7th 0 0 0 0
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 70 15th 12 27 30th 24 6th 3 9 6th
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 81 22nd 24 46 24 7th 2 0 2 6th
2019/20 Florida panthers NHL 69 19th 14th 33 26th 4th 0 0 0 2
WHL overall 144 86 66 152 72 5 0 2 2 6th
AHL total 137 52 68 120 103 18th 6th 5 11 12
NHL overall 496 98 90 188 222 42 8th 3 11 14th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2009 Canada Pacific U17-WHC 2nd place, silver 6th 3 5 8th 2
2009 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 6th 3 3 6th 4th
2010 Canada U18 World Cup 7th place 4th 1 0 1 10
2011 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 0 3 3 0
2012 Canada U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 5 1 6th 4th
Juniors overall 29 12 12 24 20th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Brett Connolly  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. whl.ca, Prince George Cougars Point Leaders Regular Season ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whl.ca
  2. lightning.nhl.com, Lightning Sign 2010 First Round Pick Board Connolly