Free agent winger Jimmy Vesey is receiving offers from multiple Kontinental Hockey League clubs without an NHL offer on the table so far this offseason, according to Daria Tuboltseva of RG.org.
Vesey, 32, finished the season with the Avalanche after they acquired him from the Rangers in March in the Ryan Lindgren deal. He was hoping for a more consistent role in Denver after a string of healthy scratches in New York led Vesey to tell Larry Brooks of the New York Post that he was “kind of dying by being here,” but that didn’t happen. He only played in 10 of Colorado’s final 21 regular-season games and did not dress in their first-round playoff loss to the Stars.
Vesey finished the season with a 5-3–8 scoring line in 43 games of action between the Rangers and Avs, his fewest NHL appearances in a single season since beginning his career in 2016. The 6’2′, 203-lb winger also averaged a career-low 10:39 per game with only 12 blocks and 32 hits. His possession impacts were similarly pedestrian, as they have been for most of his nine NHL seasons.
Understandably, Vesey was not offered an extension by the Avs and has had a hard time finding a deal nearly a month into free agency. That has him “seriously considering offers” from the KHL as compared to trying to look for a minor-league contract to continue playing in North America.
SKA St. Petersburg has been the most aggressive in pursuing the veteran of over 600 NHL games, Tuboltseva reports. He’s also fielded calls from Ak Bars Kazan, Dinamo Minsk, and Kunlun Red Star, where he could reunite with former Rangers coach Gerard Gallant, under whom he spent the 2022-23 season.
In what little he played for the Avalanche, he didn’t show very much, hence I am not surprised NHL teams haven’t shown much interests.
If he was as vanilla a defence man as he is a forward he’d be making Cody Ceci money
Once a player hits 30, the NHL turns ruthless. Makes me wonder what GM will zig with established talent when the league zags with younger players.
Or maybe Vesey just stinks…..
Vesey is a more than capable 4th winger on most teams.
Another hot take.
Yeah we know Wilf…………..you have also been running the Daniel Sprong fan club and telling us that Alex Ovechkin is washed up. It’s almost like you are now Sparky.
Agent pulls out the “we’re fielding offers from Europe… so you’re move, NHL teams,”
NHL: *crickets*
Awwww, poor baby. Guy hyped himself out of college to be the next coming of Luc Robitaille, and he’s never given more than relatively empty third-line offense. I’m not going to weep.
lol
Nha Trang
Awwww, poor baby. Guy hyped himself out of college to be the next coming of Luc Robitaille, and he’s never given more than relatively empty third-line offense. I’m not going to weep.
Wow Nha, nice tantrum. It really never gets old, and it is actually a lot of fun, watching you get angry and bitter at guys who don’t play by your unwritten rules – thank you for that! I don’t recall Jimmy Vesey ever calling himself the next Luc Robitaille, although at this point I believe that you have convinced yourself that it happened. He simply used the draft rules to his advantage and got to have a say in where he started his career, and this seems to have burned a large hole in your sensibilities on how college kids are supposed to act. While many of your takes have a solid perspective on hockey, it is this mad version of you that is always a bit more fun to watch. You and Wilf/Sparky are always a treat.