Pat Conacher

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CanadaCanada  Pat Conacher Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 1, 1959
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1979 , 4th lap, 76th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1977-1979 Billings Bighorns
1979 Saskatoon Blades
1979-1980 New Haven Nighthawks
1980-1983 New York Rangers
Springfield Indians
Tulsa Oilers
1983-1985 Edmonton Oilers
Moncton Alpines
Nova Scotia Oilers
1985-1992 New Jersey Devils
Maine Mariners
Utica Devils
1992-1996 Los Angeles Kings
1996 Calgary Flames
1996 New York Islanders
1997-1998 Team Canada

Patrick John "Pat" Conacher (* 1. May 1959 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches and current - functionary . The left winger played between 1980 and 1996, among other things, over 500 games for six teams in the National Hockey League , most of them for the New Jersey Devils and the Los Angeles Kings . With the Edmonton Oilers he won the Stanley Cup in the 1984 playoffs . As a trainer, Conacher worked as an assistant to the Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL and as head coach in the AHL and in junior leagues. Since 2013 he has been General Manager and Director of Hockey Operations at Utica Comets from the AHL.

Career

As a player

Beginnings and Stanley Cup win

Pat Conacher played in his youth for the Battleford Barons in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , before moving to the higher-ranking Western Canada Hockey League for the 1977/78 season, which was to be renamed the Western Hockey League (WHL) the following year . There he ran for almost a year and a half for the Billings Bighorns before he was transferred to the Saskatoon Blades within the WHL and spent the rest of the 1978/79 season there. Then chose him New York Rangers in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft at 76th position and took him to the 1979/80 season in their organization. For the time being, the attacker was mainly used with the Rangers' farm team, the New Haven Nighthawks , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before making his New York debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in January 1980 . His further development was subsequently thrown back by a serious ankle injury, due to which the Canadian had to suspend the entire season 1981/82. In the two years that followed, he was only on the ice in only six other games for the Rangers and thus played mostly for the Springfield Falcons in the AHL and for the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Hockey League , before his contract, which expired in the summer of 1983, was not extended has been.

In October 1983 Conacher joined the Edmonton Oilers from his hometown as a free agent , in which he then completed his first season, in which he received more service time in the NHL than in the AHL with the Moncton Alpines . In addition, he won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with the team in the following playoffs in 1984 , although he only played three games, but scored one goal in the final series against the New York Islanders . After this greatest sporting success of his career, the winger was used for the entire season 1984/85 with the new AHL farm team of the Oilers, the Nova Scotia Oilers , before he received no further contract in Edmonton in the summer of 1985.

New Jersey, Los Angeles and retired

In August 1985 Conacher moved - again as a free agent - to the New Jersey Devils , where he continued to be used primarily in minor leagues , with the Maine Mariners and later with the Utica Devils in the AHL. It was not until the 1988/89 game year marked the first, in which he was only on the ice in the NHL, recording twelve scorer points for New Jersey in 55 games . Finally, after seven years in their organization, the Devils gave it to the Los Angeles Kings in September 1992 without any further consideration .

With the Kings Conacher reached his second Stanley Cup final in the 1993 playoffs , but lost to the Canadiens de Montréal with 1: 4. In the course of the post-season he contributed six goals and four assists in 24 games. In the following season 1993/94 the Canadian recorded his personal career best in the NHL with 28 points from 77 games. After almost three and a half years in Los Angeles, he was given in exchange for Craig Ferguson to the Calgary Flames in February 1996 , who transferred him to the New York Islanders just a month later, including a six- round vote for the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, and Bob Sweeney for it received. The attacker played his last NHL games in the Islanders' shirt before declaring his career over in September 1996. However, he returned after a year off again on the ice and played a total of 34 games for the Canadian national team during the 1997/98 season , but without representing the selection at a major tournament. In 1998, Conacher finally ended his active career, in which he had played 588 NHL games and achieved 160 points scorer, while in the AHL 477 games with 353 points were book.

As a trainer and functionary

After Conacher had already gained his first experience as a coach during his time in the national team, he was hired as assistant coach of the Kelowna Rockets from the WHL for the 1999/00 season . He held this position for only one year before returning to the NHL and was behind the gang from 2000 to 2004 as an assistant to Bob Francis in the Phoenix Coyotes . This was followed by a year as the head coach of the Utah Grizzlies and the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL, before he went into a hiatus from 2006 to 2010 and was temporarily active as a scout for the Toronto Maple Leafs . The Canadian returned to the WHL for the 2010/11 season and worked as an assistant to Marc Habscheid as a trainer and manager at the Chilliwack Bruins , before he was head coach for the Regina Pats from 2011 to 2013 . This should represent his last position as a trainer for the time being, since Conacher was hired in August 2013 as the new Director of Hockey Operations in the management of the Utica Comets from the AHL. He has held this position to this day and also took over the duties of General Manager until 2017 , before Ryan Johnson was hired in this position.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1977/78 Billings Bighorns WCHL 72 31 44 75 105 20th 15th 14th 29 22nd
1978/79 Billings Bighorns WHL 39 25th 37 62 50 - - - - - -
1978/79 Saskatoon Blades WHL 33 15th 32 47 37 11 1 7th 8th 4th
1979/80 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 53 11 14th 25th 43 7th 1 1 2 4th
1979/80 New York Rangers NHL 17th 0 5 5 –9 4th 3 0 1 1 +1 2
1980/81 not played due to an ankle injury
1981/82 Springfield Indians AHL 77 23 22nd 45 38 - - - - - -
1982/83 Tulsa Oilers CHL 63 29 28 57 44 - - - - - -
1982/83 New York Rangers NHL 5 0 1 1 ± 0 4th 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1983/84 Moncton Alpines AHL 28 7th 16 23 30th - - - - - -
1983/84 Edmonton Oilers NHL 45 2 8th 10 -2 31 3 1 0 1 +1 2
1984/85 Nova Scotia Oilers AHL 68 20th 45 65 44 6th 3 2 5 0
1985/86 Maine Mariners AHL 69 15th 30th 45 83 5 1 1 2 11
1985/86 New Jersey Devils NHL 2 0 2 2 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1986/87 Maine Mariners AHL 56 12 14th 26th 47 - - - - - -
1987/88 Utica Devils AHL 47 14th 33 47 32 - - - - - -
1987/88 New Jersey Devils NHL 24 2 5 7th +8 12 17th 2 2 4th +1 14th
1988/89 New Jersey Devils NHL 55 7th 5 12 –7 14th - - - - - -
1989/90 Utica Devils AHL 57 13 36 49 53 - - - - - -
1989/90 New Jersey Devils NHL 19th 3 3 6th +2 4th 5 1 0 1 ± 0 10
1990/91 Utica Devils AHL 4th 0 1 1 6th - - - - - -
1990/91 New Jersey Devils NHL 49 5 11 16 +9 27 7th 0 2 2 -1 2
1991/92 New Jersey Devils NHL 44 7th 3 10 ± 0 16 7th 1 1 2 +3 4th
1992/93 Los Angeles Kings NHL 81 9 8th 17th -16 20th 24 6th 4th 10 +8 6th
1993/94 Los Angeles Kings NHL 77 15th 13 28 ± 0 71 - - - - - -
1994/95 Los Angeles Kings NHL 48 7th 9 16 –9 12 - - - - - -
1995/96 Los Angeles Kings NHL 35 5 2 7th -8th 18th - - - - - -
1995/96 Calgary Flames NHL 7th 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
1995/96 New York Islanders NHL 13 1 1 2 -4 0 - - - - - -
W (C) HL total 144 71 113 184 192 31 16 21st 37 26th
AHL total 459 115 211 326 376 18th 5 4th 9 15th
NHL overall 521 63 76 139 -37 235 67 11 10 21st +13 40

( 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 )

Trivia

Pat Conacher is not related to the family of Lionel , Charlie , Roy , Pete , Brian and Cory Conacher , also known from the NHL .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Comets add experience to hockey staff. theahl.com, August 12, 2013, accessed June 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Conacher, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conacher, Patrick John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada