It’s easy to look at Cory Conacher’s name on the waiver wire and conclude that Tampa Bay definitevely won Steven Matz Jersey for goalie Ben Bishop.That’s because it’s true; Bishop has emerged as a legitimate starting goaltender and potential Vezina candidate for the Lightning; his .932 save percentage is third in the league, and he generally seems, at 27, to have matured into the guy Steve Yzerman thought he may have been Yoenis Cespedes Jersey last year. Conacher, meanwhile, is free for the taking. That doesn’t mean he isn’t a useful player, though just not the guy who had 24 points (9G, 15A) in the 34 games before Ottawa acquired him.Even this season with the Sens, Conacher has 20 points in 59 games at 12:20 per game. He positively drives po se sion, with Ottawa taking 52.8 percent of all shot attempts when he’s on the ice at even strength.And most relevantly, , Conacher’s shooting percentage has dipped significantly. With Tampa, he was at 17.0 percent. This season, he’s at 5.7 percent. If Mookie Wilson Jersey the former is unsustainably high, the latter is unsustainably low. Look at one team with the first crack at him on the waiver wire, and another with the last: Conacher went to Canisius in Buffalo. Would the Sabres be interested in seeing if he could be a piece in their rebuild? The Penguins currently playing Brian Gibbons with Sidney Crosby and has a rotating cast on ineffective third-line wingers. Why not see if Conacher could succeed where others haven’t?None of this is to say that Conacher is a world-beater, Noah Syndergaard Jersey or that Ottawa GM Bryan Murray didn’t lose the Bishop trade. The point is that, with many teams looking to add players on Travis D’Arnaud Jersey the cheap for the stretch run, there aren’t many better options than Conacher. If you opt out of him in the offseason, when he hits restricted free agency, no harm, no foul.In fact, you could say that the risk is very, very small. (Sorry, Cory.)