With just one week to go until most teams open their training camps, veteran James van Riemsdyk is expected to settle for a professional tryout before attempting to land a guaranteed contract for 2024-25, Chris Johnston of The Athletic and TSN reports.
JVR may not have cracked our list of Top 50 Unrestricted Free Agents this offseason, but he is the cream of the crop still left without a contract. The 35-year-old led all unsigned UFAs in points per game last season with 0.54, posting 11 goals and 38 points in 71 games during his lone year as a Bruin.
He averaged a relatively meager 13:30 per game, and expecting him to repeat that level of production in a middle-six role is a relatively safe bet. He shot 7.7% last year, over four points under his career average, and regression back to the mean there should help negate any age-related decline that may be in store.
Multiple teams are still showing interest in van Riemsdyk’s services, per Johnston, but it appears all of them want to see how JVR does on a camp tryout before offering him a one-way deal. The New Jersey native is entering his 16th NHL season, amassing 311 goals, 318 assists and 629 points in 1,011 career games with the Bruins, Flyers, and Maple Leafs.
He’s hit the 20-goal mark seven times in his career, although he’s done so just once since 2020. He’s stayed relatively healthy, only missing 11 games last season and playing in all 82 three years ago with Philadelphia.
Hello PHR writers. I’m not a writer, I only have a high school education and a trade so I’m no language expert but I find how the word regression is used he to not only sound bad but be totally wrong. To regress or regression mean to be falling or going backwards but it is always used here in regards to someone going forward and often paired with the word positive (positive regression or regress back to normal). Is there a way to say progress or use another phrase more often in these situations?
I’m unsure how this will read but I mean it in a nice, sincere and positive criticism way. I enjoy this site and the sister sites and visit multiple times daily so keep up the good work. If possible tho try to use the above phrase less often if ever
Murphy is the opposite of Wilf and I for one welcome it
Thank you brother. I very sincerely try to be very polite in everything I do in life, sometimes I’m over polite and it back fires. For instance in winter while walking up a hill I passed a man in a wheelchair stuck on ice. I offered help, said I was going the same way. He told me to bleep off and some other things lol. Generally tho this has worked amazingly for me and it makes life easier for me, those around me and it usually leads to people wanting to help more often then not.
Thanks for the kind words and internet people especially younger ones need to understand that just because it’s thru a screen doesn’t mean you should be a jerk and act anyway you wouldn’t In real life.