Conner Bleackley

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Conner Bleackley
Date of birth February 7, 1996
place of birth High River , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 23rd position
Colorado Avalanche
NHL Entry Draft 2016 , 5th round, 144th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2011-2016 Red Deer Rebels
2016-2018 Chicago Wolves
2018-2019 San Antonio Rampage
2019-2020 Idaho steelheads
since 2020 Maine Mariners

Conner Bleackley (born February 7, 1996 in High River , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . He has been under contract with the Maine Mariners from the ECHL since January 2020 .

Career

Conner Bleackley played in his youth first with High River MHA and later with the Okotsko Oilers and was selected in the first round of the Bantam Draft 2011 of the Western Hockey League as the 21st player by the Red Deer Rebels . He then played for half a season for the UFA Bisons of Strathmore in the Alberta Midget Hockey League before making his debut for the Red Deer Rebels in the second half of the 2011/12 WHL season .

In his second full season in 2013/14 , Conner Bleackley was named team captain of the Red Deer Rebels at the age of 17 . During the season he scored 68 points in 71 games and took part in the CHL Top Prospects Game during the season . In the 2014 NHL Entry Draft , Bleackley was drawn as the 23rd player by the Colorado Avalanche from the National Hockey League . There he was criticized because of his lack of fitness, which is why a contract was not signed after a training camp. Instead, Bleackley was sent back to the Red Deer Rebels, where he scored 49 points in 51 games in the 2014-15 game year . On February 6, 2015, Bleackley suffered a groin injury, which is why he was out until the end of the season.

Before the 2015/16 season , Bleackley took part in another training camp of the Colorado Avalanche to increase his chances of an entry-level contract . Before the start of the season, Bleackley also renounced the office of team captain. During the season he scored 41 points in 47 games before breaking his kneecap on January 23, 2016 in a game against the Everett Silvertips . Because of this injury, he was not awarded a contract with the Colorado Avalanche. Instead, he was handed over to the Arizona Coyotes on February 29, 2016, along with his team-mates Alex Tanguay and Kyle Wood , who in return sent Mikkel Bødker to Colorado. However, citing his injury history, the Coyotes did not offer him a contract either.

In the 2016 NHL Entry Draft , Bleackley was drawn in 144th position by the St. Louis Blues , who provided him with a three-year contract on July 2, 2016. He was available again for the Entry Draft after two years without an NHL contract. In the Blues, he first played for their farm team , the Chicago Wolves , in the American Hockey League (AHL). In his first season there he came to 45 missions and 18 points scorer. Later in the season Bleackley also completed games for the Missouri Mavericks in the ECHL . Since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Bleackley played for the San Antonio Rampage , the Blues' new farm team, before signing an ECHL-limited contract with the Idaho Steelheads in the summer of 2019 . These gave him in January 2020 within the league to the Maine Mariners . In addition, he played a few games for the Texas Stars and the Hartford Wolf Pack from the AHL as part of trial contracts .

International

In 2013 Conner Bleackley took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge for Team Canada Pacific , where they could not qualify for the semifinals after three draws in the preliminary round. In 2014, Bleackley took part with the Canadian U18 national team at the U18 Junior World Championship in Lappeenranta , Finland , and won the bronze medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2011/12 Red Deer Rebels WHL 16 2 0 2 6th - - - - -
2012/13 Red Deer Rebels WHL 66 9 9 18th 28 9 2 1 3 0
2013/14 Red Deer Rebels WHL 71 29 39 68 48 1 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Red Deer Rebels WHL 51 27 22nd 49 49 5 1 1 2 4th
2015/16 Red Deer Rebels WHL 55 13 33 46 49 - - - - -
2016 Red Deer Rebels Memorial Cup 4th 0 2 2 4th
2016/17 Chicago Wolves AHL 45 2 8th 10 8th 2 0 0 0 5
2016/17 Missouri Mavericks ECHL 14th 7th 10 17th 14th - - - - -
2017/18 Chicago Wolves AHL 7th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2017/18 Tulsa Oilers ECHL 40 19th 19th 38 82 - - - - -
2017/18 San Antonio Rampage AHL 13 1 0 1 7th - - - - -
2018/19 San Antonio Rampage AHL 57 5 11 16 35 - - - - -
2019/20 Idaho steelheads ECHL 18th 4th 9 13 4th - - - - -
2019/20 Texas Stars AHL 10 3 2 5 6th - - - - -
2019/20 Maine Mariners ECHL 15th 5 5 10 14th - - - - -
2019/20 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
WHL overall 259 80 103 183 180 15th 3 3 6th 4th
ECHL total 87 35 43 78 114 - - - - -
AHL total 133 11 22nd 33 60 2 0 0 0 5

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2013 Canada U17-WHC 5th place 5 3 1 4th 12
2014 Canada U18 World Cup Bronze medal 7th 1 1 2 4th
Juniors overall 12 4th 2 6th 16

( 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 : Conner Bleackley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rebels pick Conner Bleackley. Red Deer Rebels, May 5, 2011, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Conner Bleackley. In: hockeysfuture.com. October 21, 2013, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Terry Frei: Avalanche draft pick Conner Bleackley working toward his time in NHL. Denver Post, July 7, 2015, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Samantha Poulos: Prospect Bleackley relishes learning. National Hockey League, September 19, 2015, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Rebels lose Bleackley to fractured kneecap. (No longer available online.) In: thecoachessite.com. January 26, 2016, archived from the original on November 27, 2018 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was 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 / thecoachessite.com
  6. ↑ Alex Tanguay, prospects traded by Avs to Arizona for Mikkel Boedker. In: Denver Post. February 29, 2016, accessed November 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bleackley, Conner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH High River , Alberta , Canada