After the Vancouver Canucks did not extend a qualifying offer to Cory Conacher, he is now free to join SC Bern. The team announces that they have signed him to a two-year contract.

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The 25-year-old forward had been traded from the New York Islanders to the Canucks last season. However, Conacher only played for their AHL affiliate the Utica Comets, scoring twelve goals and twelve assists in 42 games for them.

Overall he can look back on 149 NHL games (22 goals, 39 assists) and 214 AHL games (74 goals, 103 assists). Conacher, who has already played for Boucher in the 2012-13 season with the Tampa Bay Lightning, has a NHL out clause after the 2015-16 season. His contract will last until 2017. (mso)