Tim Connolly

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Tim Connolly
Date of birth May 7th 1981
place of birth Baldwinsville , New York , USA
size 185 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 1st round, 5th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1997-1999 Erie Otters
1999-2001 New York Islanders
2004-2005 SCL Tigers
2001-2011 Buffalo Sabers
2011–2012 Toronto Maple Leafs
2012-2013 Toronto Marlies

Timothy L. "Tim" Connolly (born May 7, 1981 in Baldwinsville , New York ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 733 games for the New York Islanders , Buffalo Sabers and among others between 1997 and 2013 Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League on the position of the center .

Career

Tim Conolly (# 19) with Derek Roy and Martin Biron

Connolly began his career with the Syracuse Junior Crunch , for which he scored 62 points scorer in the 1996/97 season. A year later he moved to the top junior league Ontario Hockey League to the Erie Otters , for whom he played until 1999. In the 1998/99 season he led the points statistics with 34 goals and 34 assists and was invited to the Top Prospects Game of the Canadian Hockey League . Because of the performance shown in the OHL, he was selected in the first round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders as fifth .

On October 2, 1999 , he finally made his debut for the Islanders in the NHL (against Tampa Bay ) - his first goal and his first assist he scored on October 10, 1999 against the Colorado Avalanche . He finished the season as the Islanders' rookie with the best points and was third in terms of assists, power play goals and scorer points, and he also scored the fourth most goals of all Islanders players. The following season he stepped on the ice in all 82 Islanders games, scoring ten goals and 31 assists.

During the 2001 NHL Entry Draft , Connolly and Taylor Pyatt were transferred to the Buffalo Sabers by the Islanders in exchange for Michael Peca . He made his debut for the Sabers on October 4, 2001 against the Atlanta Thrashers and scored his first goal for the Sabers on October 26 against the Ottawa Senators . He finished the season with ten goals and 35 assists and was one of five Sabers players to play all 82 games of the season. A year later, after 80 games in which he scored twelve goals and 13 assists, he was suspended from the NHL for four games due to a high stick (with injury) - at this point he had played 286 consecutive games.

Tim Connolly missed the entire 2003-04 season due to concussion syndrome , which he had suffered from since a concussion in a preseason game against the Chicago Blackhawks . During the lockout in the following season he went on the ice in 16 games for SC Langnau in the NLA .

Back in Buffalo, he set a new personal career record with 55 points in 63 regular season games. In the subsequent Stanley Cup playoffs in 2006 , he scored a further eleven points in eight games, but suffered another concussion. On July 2, 2011, Connolly signed a two-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs . After spending the first year there in the NHL with the Maple Leafs, he completed the second year contract with their farm team Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League , before ending his active career.

International

Connolly played for his home country at the U20 World Junior Championship in 1999 in Winnipeg, Canada, and the 2001 World Cup in Germany .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Syracuse Stars MTJHL 50 42 62 104 34 - - - - -
1997/98 Erie Otters OHL 59 30th 32 62 32 7th 1 6th 7th 6th
1998/99 Erie Otters OHL 46 34 34 68 50 - - - - -
1999/00 New York Islanders NHL 81 14th 20th 34 44 - - - - -
2000/01 New York Islanders NHL 82 10 31 41 42 - - - - -
2001/02 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 10 35 45 34 - - - - -
2002/03 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 12 13 25th 32 - - - - -
2003/04 Buffalo Sabers NHL not played because of concussion syndrome
2004/05 SC Langnau NLA 16 7th 3 10 14th - - - - -
2005/06 Buffalo Sabers NHL 63 16 39 55 28 8th 5 6th 11 0
2006/07 Buffalo Sabers NHL 2 1 0 1 2 16 0 9 9 4th
2007/08 Buffalo Sabers NHL 48 7th 33 40 8th - - - - -
2008/09 Buffalo Sabers NHL 48 18th 29 47 22nd - - - - -
2009/10 Buffalo Sabers NHL 73 17th 48 65 28 6th 0 1 1 2
2010/11 Buffalo Sabers NHL 68 13 29 42 20th 6th 0 2 2 2
2011/12 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 13 23 36 40 - - - - -
2012/13 Toronto Marlies AHL 28 5 7th 12 23 6th 0 1 1 8th
OHL total 105 64 66 130 82 7th 1 6th 7th 6th
NHL overall 697 131 300 431 300 36 5 18th 23 8th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1999 United States U20 World Cup 8th place 6th 1 0 1 8th
2001 United States WM 4th Place 9 3 4th 7th 4th
Juniors overall 6th 1 0 1 8th
Men overall 9 3 4th 7th 4th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Connolly, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connolly, Timothy L. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 7th 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Baldwinsville , New York (State)