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Cory Conacher

#89 · Centre · Tampa Bay Lightning

Born Dec 14, 1989 in Burlington, Ontario, CAN · 5'8", 185 lb · Shoots left

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2017-18. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Dominik Simon PIT · 12 P in 33 GP Anders Bjork BOS · 12 P in 30 GP Connor Brickley FLA · 12 P in 44 GP Anton Slepyshev EDM · 12 P in 50 GP Dominic Moore TOR · 12 P in 50 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

010202012-13: 29 points2912-132013-14: 26 points2613-142014-15: 3 points314-152016-17: 4 points416-172017-18: 12 points1217-182018-19: 0 points018-192019-20: 1 points119-20

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2012-13 TBL 35 9 15 24 -3 16 53 25 0.69 $871K
2012-13 OTT 12 2 3 5 6 4 14 14 0.42
2013-14 OTT 60 4 16 20 8 34 73 41 0.33 $871K
2013-14 BUF 19 3 3 6 -7 16 27 10 0.32
2014-15 NYI 15 1 2 3 -3 14 23 19 0.20 $600K
2016-17 TBL 11 1 3 4 0 4 16 1 0.36 $575K
2017-18 TBL 36 8 4 12 0 24 45 32 0.33 $650K
2018-19 TBL 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0.00 $650K
2019-20 TBL 4 0 1 1 -2 4 5 3 0.25 $700K
7 seasons Career 193 28 47 75 -1 118 257 145 0.39

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2012-13 OTT 8 3 0 3 -2 31 9 12 0.38
2017-18 TBL 2 0 0 0 -1 10 3 2 0.00
2 seasons Playoffs 10 3 0 3 -3 41 12 14 0.30

2017-18 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
36 8 4 12 0 24 45 32 0.33 17.8 10:00

Contract

$650KCap hit2017-18
$54KCap dollars per point12 points in 36 games
$486KCap dollars per goal above replacement1.3 goals above replacement
$1.5MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$814KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 691 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2019-20 to 2019-20 $700K
2018-19 to 2018-19 $650K
2016-17 to 2017-18 $575K
2014-15 to 2014-15 $600K
2012-13 to 2013-14 $871K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2017-18 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2017-18 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+1.3Goals above replacement427th of 691 skaters, 291st of 451 forwards
+0.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+0.3Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 451 ranked forwards: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

Even-strength offence-0.5 46th percentileEven-strength defence+0.4 52nd percentilePower play+0.2 69th percentilePenalty kill+0.0 46th percentilePenalties+0.3 51st percentile

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater, and the rank beside it is among forwards. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-10123452012-132013-142014-152016-172017-182018-192019-20Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

51.9Corsi for %313 attempts for, 290 against
-2.1CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
53.3Expected goals for %13.1 expected for, 11.5 against
-3.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
51.0Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
47.8Goals for %11 for, 12 against
99.5PDO6.4% shooting + 93.1% saves
71Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Killorn · Cory Conacher · Yanni Gourde18127:5458.964.05-3
Tyler Johnson · Cory Conacher · Adam Erne436:0954.537.40-1
Chris Kunitz · Cory Conacher · Cedric Paquette1030:3858.769.51-0
Cory Conacher · Vladislav Namestnikov · Adam Erne316:4959.463.81-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

8Goalsnot counting empty-netters
4.5Expected goalsfrom 62 unblocked attempts
+3.5Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.75 expected goals per 60 minutes54th
Shot quality 7.2% chance per attempt43rd
Finishing +3.5 goals above expected81stOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 423 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

02468Game 20Goals 8Expected 4.5

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 6, 2018 vs BUF W 7-5 0 0 0 -1 4 1 1 12:37
Apr 3, 2018 vs BOS W 4-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13:16
Mar 30, 2018 @ NYR W 7-3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 11:56
Mar 29, 2018 @ BOS L 2-4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 07:45
Mar 18, 2018 vs EDM W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 06:55
Mar 6, 2018 vs FLA W 5-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:30
Mar 3, 2018 vs PHI W 7-6 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:17
Mar 1, 2018 @ DAL W 5-4 (OT) 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 12:23
Feb 28, 2018 vs BUF L 1-2 (OT) 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 09:01
Feb 26, 2018 vs TOR W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:30
Feb 24, 2018 @ MTL W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 05:57
Feb 17, 2018 vs NJD L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:12
Feb 12, 2018 @ TOR L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:56
Feb 10, 2018 vs LAK W 4-3 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 09:15
Feb 8, 2018 vs VAN W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:34
Feb 5, 2018 @ EDM L 2-6 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:34
Feb 3, 2018 @ VAN W 4-2 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 11:31
Feb 1, 2018 @ CGY W 7-4 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 11:23
Jan 18, 2018 vs VGK L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:12
Jan 6, 2018 @ OTT L 3-6 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 09:53
Jan 4, 2018 @ MTL L 1-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 09:51
Jan 2, 2018 @ TOR W 2-0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 10:09
Dec 31, 2017 @ CBJ W 5-0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 10:19
Dec 29, 2017 vs PHI L 3-5 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 11:43
Dec 28, 2017 vs MTL W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 06:59
Dec 23, 2017 vs MIN W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 07:04
Dec 21, 2017 vs OTT W 4-3 (SO) 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 08:46
Dec 19, 2017 @ VGK L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:13
Dec 16, 2017 @ COL W 6-5 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 08:08
Dec 14, 2017 @ ARI W 4-1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 14:06
Dec 12, 2017 @ STL W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:25
Dec 9, 2017 vs WPG W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:15
Dec 7, 2017 vs COL W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 08:06
Dec 5, 2017 vs NYI W 6-2 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 10:04
Dec 2, 2017 vs SJS W 5-2 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 08:01
Nov 25, 2017 @ PIT L 2-5 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 10:02