Brett Connolly

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

2009 Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy 2009 CHL Rookie of the Year 2009 CHL All-Rookie Team

2013 AHL Second All-Star Team 2014 AHL All-Star Classic 2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals

International

• 2009 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2011 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2012 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

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:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009 U18 Junior World Championship 2009 U18 Junior World Championship 2010

U20 World Junior Championship 2011 U20 Junior World Championship 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada Pacific	U17-WHC			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			7th	0	3	3	0
2012	Canada	U20 World Cup			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

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Brett Connolly at eliteprospects.com (English)

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. 
2. ↑ lightning.nhl.com, Lightning Sign 2010 First Round Pick Board Connolly