Confirmed Signing with Link: Vesey signs with the New York Rangers

[DopeyFish]

Not a bum, but not very smart. Wont max his value there. But good for him and Hayes. They get to score 30 points together.

Rangers are very weak in LW prospects though

Maybe that's what they were thinking

 

[masinaLFC]

but why?

 

[Empoleon8771]

Kevin Hayes as our 2014 first rounder. And Vesey now as our 2016 first rounder. So much for bleeding picks.

Vesey is not a 1st round caliber prospect, and the fact that you signed them doesn't negate out that you traded them in the first place. The Pens signed Bengtsson and DiPauli this year, but that doesn't magically mean they haven't traded their last 4 1st round picks.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

I like the youth NYR is building...

Kreider
Zibby
Stepan
Miller
Hayes
Lindberg
McIlrath
Skjei
Buchnevich
Fast
Vesey

gonna be fun to watch next year... pretty damn impressive youth

 

[Sabre Dance]

Good for Rangers. Poor buffalo, I would feel bad if it wasn't for this summer hf trade boards.

We're not that poor anymore. We'll live.

 

[whlscowt]

With 14 signed forwards (and then Buch) who's on the outside looking in Rangers fans? I assume Gerbe and maybe 2 of Fast/Jooris/Teacher's Pet Glass are the numbers victims? But I don't know the team all that well. Any lineup projections?

 

[Malkinstheman]

Would have been nice if he came to the Pens but good luck to him.

 

[blazinblair]

The Rangers? I'm a little shocked over them getting him.

 

[Mr Positive]

Why Rangers? Their window has closed.

Their window isn't closed, not fully anyway. If they get a youth movement going while their old core is still effective (they have one of the best goalies in the game for crying out loud) then they can transform their team. Vesey obviously sees their window as open enough to be able to push fully open again, and at the very least there is hope for that team during his RFA years

 

[pld459666]

That's not how it works.

No. It's not.

But the do off set the lost 1st rounders.

 

[Riptide]

Not too surprising, I'm just happy the Hawks didn't get him. I'll take it.

Glad CHI didn't get him as well. Not too sure how he see's NYR as a team that's going to set him up for success... they're a team that's not going to be doing much of anything over the next few years - despite their youth.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

Rangers have a ton of good young top-9 wingers.

Yah I like what they did this offseason with a better defense and a healthy henrik lundqvist. They might surprise some people in a wide open eastern conference.

 

[Muston Atthews]

Hope he busts. Don't care if I'm petty. Goes to the team on a decline lol.

 

[NYR713]

Yeah it would have made sense in 2014 when Hayes signed, but right now? Their future isn't looking too great after they have bled picks and prospects over the years and have numerous horrid contracts with a heavily declining roster.

Complete nonsense.

 

[gamer1035]

Lol @ bruins.

Why is everyone here happy the leafs didnt get him when the consensus was that the leafs wouldn't get him? Leafs hate?

 

[Drew4u]

Nash Step Zucc
Kreider Zib Miller
Vesey Hayes Buch

By far the best top nine in the NHL. Doesn't matter how trash are defence is, this group is a contender

 

[Ciao]

This is what I expected. New York, New York. The place to be for a 23 year-old Harvard grad. Congrats to both!

 

[Sabre Dance]

Rangers are very weak in LW prospects though

Maybe that's what they were thinking

He is best buddies with Hayes, and NY is NY. He'll regret it in 2 years, but for now him and Hayes can cruise the Big Apple.

 

[pld459666]

About time.

Kid's going to be under the microscope all season; time to back up all the hype.

By whom? Hockey in the NY market gets no pressure.

 

[Battle Lin]

its time for rangers to get younger, this is a solid piece

 

[KPower]

Nash Step Zucc
Kreider Zib Miller
Vesey Hayes Buch

By far the best top nine in the NHL. Doesn't matter how trash are defence is, this group is a contender

Haha...contender for the lottery maybe.

 

[pigpen65]

Rich uncle Murray burning through buffalo's assets.

 

[irunthepeg]

Hope he busts. Don't care if I'm petty. Goes to the team on a decline lol.

I hate the fact they got both him and Hayes and the teams that draft them get nothing (Buffalo also gets screwed here). I hope they eventually look at that rule with NCAA.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Nash Step Zucc
Kreider Zib Miller
Vesey Hayes Buch

By far the best top nine in the NHL. Doesn't matter how trash are defence is, this group is a contender

that's a very impressive top 9.. not a contender but itll be fun to watch

 

[Empoleon8771]

Forward group is right around his age.

Stepan - 26
Zibanejad - 23
Kreider - 25
Miller - 23
Hayes - 23
Buchnevich - 21
Lindberg - 24
Fast - 24

Yeah he definitely fits the age of the Rangers forward group and the Rangers definitely have a good forward group. Their defense is still horrid though, they have almost nothing long term outside of Skjei and McDonagh (maybe McIlrath, I don't know where he'll top off at). They desperately need to get some puck movers on defense, they won't be a serious contender until they fix that.

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Until the Rangers actually fix their ass defense, they're not a contender. I don't see how that's a very controversial opinion. They have nothing long term on defense (outside of Skjei and McDonagh) and are plagued with horrid contracts to Girardi and Staal.