On Tuesday, a long-running rumor apparently finally came to resolution. Syracuse Crunch forward Cory Conacher is on his way back to Europe to play hockey in Switzerland. Lausanne Hockey Club of the NLA announced via Twitter that they had signed the 30-year-old winger to a three-year contract.
Conacher, who previously played with SC Bern in Switzerland, was originally signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2011 as a free agent. He was undrafted after four productive years at Canisius College and then spent a season getting into a scattering of games with Rochester and Milwaukee in the AHL.