Cory Conacher

Canada Cory Conacher


Date of birth	December 14, 1989
place of birth	Burlington , Ontario , Canada
size	173 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 89
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

2006-2007	Burlington Cougars
2007-2011	Canisius College
2011	Rochester Americans Cincinnati Cyclones Milwaukee Admirals
2011–2012	Norfolk Admirals
2012-2013	Tampa Bay Lightning
2013-2014	Ottawa Senators
2014	Buffalo Sabers
2014-2015	New York Islanders Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2015	Utica Comets
2015-2016	SC Bern
2016-2020	Tampa Bay Lightning Syracuse Crunch
since 2020	Lausanne HC

Cory Conacher (born December 14, 1989 in Burlington , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Lausanne HC from the Swiss National League since July 2020 and plays there in the position of left winger . Conacher is a distant relative of Lionel Conacher , Charlie Conacher, and Roy Conacher .

Career

Conacher in the jersey of the Ottawa Senators (2013)

Conacher first played until 2007 for the Burlington Cougars from his hometown in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League . There he reached 62 scorer points in 48 games in the 2006/07 season . In the summer of 2007 he finally went to the American Canisius College in Buffalo , where he ran parallel for the hockey team of the college in the Atlantic Hockey , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During his four-year tenure, the striker completed 129 games for college, scoring 147 points. In the 2010/11 season he was named Division Player of the Year after 53 points in 33 games . Overall, Conacher set twelve college records, but was not drafted by any franchise from the National Hockey League during this time , although the Anaheim Ducks regularly scouted him .

After finishing his college career, Conacher was signed by the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League on a trial contract at the end of March 2011. After only two missions in which he scored a goal, the two parties parted ways. Conacher then immediately hired the Cincinnati Cyclones from the ECHL , which awarded him after seven points from three games - including a four-point game in the first and a hat trick in the second game - to the Milwaukee Admirals from the American Hockey League. In Milwaukee, the winger ended the season; He achieved six points in twelve matches. In July 2011, the Norfolk Admirals Conacher signed. His contract rights with the Cincinnati Cyclones in the ECHL were secured a month later by the Florida Everblades , which were in cooperation with the Norfolk Admirals. In September, the Tampa Bay Lightning from the NHL finally tested their acquisition in the pre-season, where Conacher, however, failed to recommend. He then spent the 2011/12 season in Norfolk. During the season he took part in the AHL All-Star Classic after he had led all rookies in the league on points at this point . In addition, after an excellent season with the Admirals, he secured the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the best point team in the league in the regular season . Conacher himself ended the season as the second-best scorer of all players behind Chris Bourque , top scorer of all games and best scorer among all rookies. In addition to nominations for the Second All-Star Team and All-Rookie Team , he received the Les Cunningham Award for Most Valuable Player , Willie Marshall Award for Best Scorer and Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award for Best League Newcomer. In the play-offs in June 2012, the striker reached the final series of the Calder Cup with the Admirals , which the team won against the Toronto Marlies . On March 1, 2012, the Tampa Bay Lightning provided him with a contract for the NHL and AHL for the following two years until summer 2014.

Conacher was transferred to the Ottawa Senators an hour before the trade deadline on April 3, 2013 . There he played until March 2014, before he was signed by the Buffalo Sabers on the waiver list . This did not extend his contract after the 2013/14 season, so he joined the New York Islanders in July 2014 .

The Islanders swapped him for Dustin Jeffrey from the Vancouver Canucks in March , with Conacher serving for their farm team, the Utica Comets . At the Comets he reached the final of the Calder Cup , but lost to the Manchester Monarchs . His expiring contract was not extended afterwards, so that Conacher moved to Europe for the first time to SC Bern in the Swiss National League A in the 2015/16 season. With the SCB he became Swiss champion in 2016.

In July 2016, he returned to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL and signed a one-year contract. However, these mainly used the attacker in the AHL at the Syracuse Crunch , where Conacher was again elected to the AHL Second All-Star Team at the end of the 2016/17 season. Ultimately, the Canadian spent in the organization until summer 2020 and mainly played for Syracuse in the AHL. In July 2020, he signed a three-year contract with Lausanne HC , which brought him back to Switzerland.

Achievements and Awards

2010 AHA Player of the Year
2010 AHA First All-Star Team
2011 AHA Second All-Star Team
2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2012 Les Cunningham Award
2012 Willie Marshall Award
2012 Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award
2012 AHL All-Rookie Team

2012 AHL Second All-Star Team
2012 Calder Cup win with the Norfolk Admirals
2015 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada
2016 Swiss champions with SC Bern
2017 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2017 AHL Second All-Star Team
2019 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Conacher in the jersey of the New York Islanders (2014)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006/07	Burlington Cougars	OPJHL	48	22nd	40	62	62	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Canisius College	NCAA	20th	7th	10	17th	24
2008/09	Canisius College	NCAA	37	12	23	35	42
2009/10	Canisius College	NCAA	35	20th	33	53	36
2010/11	Canisius College	NCAA	37	23	19th	42	54
2010/11	Rochester Americans	AHL	2	1	0	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL	3	5	2	7th	0	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL	5	3	2	5	2	7th	0	1	1	6th
2011/12	Norfolk Admirals	AHL	75	39	41	80	114	18th	2	13	15th	28
2012/13	Syracuse crunch	AHL	5	3	2	5	2	7th	0	1	1	6th
2012/13	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	35	9	15th	24	16	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL	12	2	3	5	4th	8th	3	0	3	31
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL	60	4th	16	20th	34	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	19th	3	3	6th	16	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL	28	5	17th	22nd	30th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Islanders	NHL	15th	1	2	3	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Utica Comets	AHL	20th	7th	9	16	22nd	23	5	3	8th	28
2015/16	SC Bern	NLA	48	22nd	30th	52	68	14th	5	4th	9	20th
2016/17	Syracuse crunch	AHL	56	17th	43	60	113	22nd	12	16	28	27
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	11	1	3	4th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Syracuse crunch	AHL	18th	7th	8th	15th	36	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	36	8th	4th	12	24	2	0	0	0	10
2018/19	Syracuse crunch	AHL	70	22nd	42	64	95	4th	1	2	3	6th
2018/19	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	1	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Syracuse crunch	AHL	44	14th	24	38	39	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	4th	0	1	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall			129	62	85	147	156
AHL total			354	127	203	330	509	74	20th	35	55	95
NHL overall			189	28	46	74	114	14th	3	1	4th	45

( 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 )