Jimmy Vesey
New York Rangers Left Wing
Five hundred and eighty-three games, a career minus-54, and thirteen goals at 30.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | NYR | 80 | 16 | 11 | 27 | -13 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 116 | 13.8 | 13:38 |
| 2017-18 | NYR | 79 | 17 | 11 | 28 | -18 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 136 | 12.5 | 14:20 |
| 2018-19 | NYR | 81 | 17 | 18 | 35 | -6 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 154 | 11.0 | 16:03 |
| 2019-20 | BUF | 64 | 9 | 11 | 20 | +12 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 93 | 9.7 | 13:48 |
| 2020-21 | TOR/VAN | 50 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 8.6 | 12:43 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 68 | 8 | 7 | 15 | -24 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 110 | 7.3 | 14:25 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 81 | 11 | 14 | 25 | +13 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 123 | 8.9 | 13:37 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 80 | 13 | 13 | 26 | -4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 116 | 11.2 | 12:23 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 583 | 96 | 90 | 186 | -54 | 144 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 906 | 10.6 | 13:55 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
80 games, 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points, 4 game-winners, 20 penalty minutes, 12:23 a night and minus-4. He took 45.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 873 minutes, the 24th percentile, and his ice went 24-33 against an expectation of 29.33-35.14.
Five goals of scoring that did not arrive and two fewer conceded than the chances called for. A 24th-percentile chance share is the lowest of any regular forward on this roster.
The Finesse Game
161 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20, 116 on goal, converted at 11.2 per cent against a career 10.60.
90 career assists in 583 games. He gets to the net and there is nothing else in the offensive game — ninety assists in five hundred and eighty-three games is a fourth-liner’s record. Four game-winners is a large share of thirteen goals.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 203 and forechecks hard without hurting anybody.
144 career penalty minutes in 583 games is a very low rate. He wins the wall, goes to the front of the net, and kills penalties with 4 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2012 by Nashville, out of Boston, four years at Harvard, eight seasons across five organisations, and 186 points in 583 games at a career minus-54.
He is 31 and this is his second spell in New York. A fourth-line winger who plays every night and scores thirteen is a useful thing on a club that needed nine of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 873 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.5%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.4%
- 14th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 24 for, 33 against. Expected: 29.3 and 35.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 873 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyler Pitlickoff the roster32%
- Nick Boninooff the roster14%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.5% — 4.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 873 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclay Goodrow | 44.1% | 49.4% | 27.5% |
| K'Andre Miller | 43.6% | 46.9% | 49.9% |
| Jacob Trouba | 43.3% | 46.9% | 49.4% |
44.1% together, 49.4% for him apart and 27.5% for Goodrow apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Goodrow behind.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
161 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.