Speculation: Roster Building Thread : Part XVI (Playoffs or Retool?)

[Shesterkybomb]

Understandable when the team plays Rempe over you

4th line has been good

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

Another unhappy camper

Exclusive | Jimmy Vesey has reached his Rangers nadir: ‘I’m kind of dying by being here’

Jimmy Vesey has sat with these emotions for weeks. He is hardly a rock-thrower. He is a Blueblood. But he is hurting, and he is realistic.

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Hes better than kaliyev. Id be pissed if i was out of the lineup for him

 

[Boris Zubov]

A small break.

Bread.
also, did Mika get a haircut?

Crazy how Rempe & Ed make Key look like he's a school kid standing in between them.

Can't tell if Mika cut his hair, but he's the only one with any style on that stage. Those Europeans always make it look so easy when it comes to fashion.

 

[noncents]

if i was vesey watching edstrom gallop up and down the ice id be a little upset too

 

[Mike in Houston]

I feel bad for Jimmy. Coach has f'd him pretty good.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I feel bad for Jimmy. Coach has f'd him pretty good.

Disagree....he hasn't earned it with his play. Regardless, we bitch about young guys not getting a shot over the vets, well here's one instance where Lavi is actually doing the right thing.

 

[mike14]

I feel bad for Jimmy. Coach has f'd him pretty good.

In what way?
He's a bottom 6 guy and everyone else in the bottom six has either outproduced him and/or brings a point of difference.
Vesey is a useful depth player, but the whole idea is that you have guys on your roster who end pushing guys like him out of the lineup

edit to add - i do feel bad for Vesey because he seems like a good guy and it would suck to be in his position, but i don't think it has anything to do with management/coaching

 

[17futurecap]

Hard to blame Brooks here when it’s an exclusive interview, so Vesey didn’t need to do it. Step one in getting the hell out of here for Vesey, can’t blame him for not wanting to sit in the pressbox for another 3 months when he’s about to be a UFA.

 

[SA16]

He’s a dime a dozen fourth liner who cares? Would you rather him say how happy he is that he’s not in the lineup?

 

[TominNC]

Maybe so but I do not see any reason not to want a booming shot. I doubt any AVs coaches are saying we would like Makar to shoot at an Adam Fox or Ryan Lindgren speed. JT Miller has a pretty hard shot. Maybe he will use it in NY

Shooting from closer, on net, preferably with the goalie moving is a higher percentage shot than someone cranking boomers from the point.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

A small break.

Bread.
also, did Mika get a haircut?

They all look miserable except for Housley and Igor, who are grinning from ear to ear. Looks more like a funeral

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Vesey should be pissed he's not playing and feeling like he's stagnated in his career and if it stays this way he could be out of the league. He was almost there a few years ago. I get his frustration.

However, the players playing over him - Edstrom, Rempe and Kaliyev would be the three I guess - are all young players the organization is trying to see what they have in them. They should be playing over Jimmy from this perspective.

Sucks for Jimbo, but it is what it is.

I'm still annoyed about that dirty headbutt hit Lomberg threw on him in the playoffs that knocked him out. I feel like if he was healthy and playing things could've been different. Not because he's some huge difference maker but if he was healthy he would've done more with his minutes on the 4th line and PK than Rempe did with his time, plus Wheeler does't get in the lineup and the disaster of Game 4 never happens (not that I fault Wheeler he was in a tough spot even playing and then Mika handcuffs him at the blue line in OT with the dumbest pass in the history of hockey. Having a solid reliable guy like Vesey in the playoffs is valuable in your bottom 6, would've liked to see how that series plays out with him in the lineup.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Larry must be loving that he’s getting an exclusive every other f***ing week with another player complaining about something with the team

 

[NickyFotiu]

Shooting from closer, on net, preferably with the goalie moving is a higher percentage shot than someone cranking boomers from the point.

That is true but not really the point. Sometimes point shots are open while closer shots are not. I don't think having a weaker shot is better than a harder shot whether in close or further out if all other things are equal. Nobody is asking Makar to shoot slower imo.

 

[JimmyG89]

Hopefully they just rip the bandaid and get a 6th for Vesey tomorrow.

Probably was not happy Brodz got the call over him. Probably wouldn't be happy myself.

It's an easy move. Someone can get a 4th liner that is okay on the PK as depth for a playoff team. Send him off to Tampa.

 

[lakeshirts37]

Another unhappy camper

Exclusive | Jimmy Vesey has reached his Rangers nadir: ‘I’m kind of dying by being here’

Jimmy Vesey has sat with these emotions for weeks. He is hardly a rock-thrower. He is a Blueblood. But he is hurting, and he is realistic.

nypost.com

Trade him tomorrow. Enough with the whiners.

 

[Cmox]

Finally