Confirmed Signing with Link: [WPG] Jets Sign Kristian Vesalainen to ELC [3yr, 0.925M AAV]

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[Isaac Nootin]

He's gonna be a good one, IMO.

A perfect cost controlled player for the Jets potential cap crunch.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

AHL this year if he doesn’t make the big team? Or back to Finland? Either way looks like a good pick I’ll be shocked if he’s not a full time player in a years time.

 

[Voodoo Glow Skulls]

AHL this year if he doesn’t make the big team? Or back to Finland? Either way looks like a good pick I’ll be shocked if he’s not a full time player in a years time.

I would hope they play him in the AHL.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[Hunter368]

Great news, big top six winger that plays a solid 200 foot game.

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Think this guy is going to turn out to be a homerun pick for the Jets.

 

[jrs]

More Laine please

 

[The Big M]

More Laine please

VesaLAINEn

 

[ulf]

Probably turned out better than the 13th they gave up to get him

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Think this guy is going to turn out to be a homerun pick for the Jets.

Of course he is, because the Jets are incredible at picking in the first round, every pick they’ve made has been a stud (except Stanley, don’t know what they were thinking there).

 

[BB88]

Probably turned out better than the 13th they gave up to get him

I think Valimaki would have been a fantastic pick as well.

 

[ffh]

Of course he is, because the Jets are incredible at picking in the first round, every pick they’ve made has been a stud (except Stanley, don’t know what they were thinking there).

Stanley is just as far along then any dman taken after him.

 

[Charlie Conway]

Stanley is just as far along then any dman taken after him.

Don't think that knee injury in 2017 did him any favors, either. Still too early to definitively say anything about him. He took a nice step forward last year.

 

[Whileee]

I think Valimaki would have been a fantastic pick as well.

I think Valimaki is good, but I think Vesalainen could be a big top line scorer. Right now, he gets my nod as better prospect.

 

[mouser]

Not surprised. The “European transfer clause” is becoming more common in recent years.

 

[Jumptheshark]

He's gonna be a good one, IMO.

A perfect cost controlled player for the Jets potential cap crunch.

Unless he hits his bonuses

 

[BB88]

I think Valimaki is good, but I think Vesalainen could be a big top line scorer. Right now, he gets my nod as better prospect.

Probably, but with the Jets depth charts& Trouba situation another high end D-prospect wouldn't hurt.

Still, have high hopes for Vesalainen and he was a great pick.

 

[north49er]

Not surprised. The “European transfer clause” is becoming more common in recent years.

Apparently if he returns to Finland it won't cost the Jets a year on his ELC. Smart move.

 

[Stephen]

What can we expect from this guy, poor man's Laine?

 

[ffh]

Unless he hits his bonuses

He will be on 4th line all year if no injuries if he makes team so probably won't hit bonuses. Lowry's line will get 3rd line minutes although more like a 4th line. Will play around 10 minutes a game.

 

[Lempo]

Apparently if he returns to Finland it won't cost the Jets a year on his ELC. Smart move.

I'm pretty certain the European Assignment clause is there only to make the Jets give him a Games Played bonus of couple of hundred k for the first year so his total salary for the year he will spend mostly in AHL is closer to what he would be paid in KHL.

1.492M AAV pretty likely comes from 3 x $925k salary and 2 x $850k max Schedule A Performance Bonus for years 2 and 3. He wouldn't hit Performance Bonuses anyway on year one playing in AHL, but he takes real money instead from the Games Played bonus and Jets save a bit on the cap hit.

Getting the Games Played bonus takes 10+ games in NHL though so he will burn his first ELC year in 2018-19.

 

[mouser]

Apparently if he returns to Finland it won't cost the Jets a year on his ELC. Smart move.

If he plays mostly in the AHL and less then 10 NHL games then his ELC slides as well. No big difference.

 

[Peggy]

Probably, but with the Jets depth charts& Trouba situation another high end D-prospect wouldn't hurt.

Still, have high hopes for Vesalainen and he was a great pick.

Draft Best pick available
Would rather draft the better player than draft for needs and end up with a "lesser" player
Would've preceded a centre in that draft tbh. But it sounds like vesalainen could be a legit pick



That's one reason I dont like the stanley pick

 

[Whileee]

Probably, but with the Jets depth charts& Trouba situation another high end D-prospect wouldn't hurt.

Still, have high hopes for Vesalainen and he was a great pick.

If they have to trade Trouba, they can easily get D prospect as good or better than Valimaki as part of the return. Also, the strong development of Niku and Samberg has made a LHD prospect less of a priority.

 

[north49er]

I'm pretty certain the European Assignment clause is there only to make the Jets give him a Games Played bonus of couple of hundred k for the first year so his total salary for the year he will spend mostly in AHL is closer to what he would be paid in KHL.

1.492M AAV pretty likely comes from 3 x $925k salary and 2 x $850k max Schedule A Performance Bonus for years 2 and 3. He wouldn't hit Performance Bonuses anyway on year one playing in AHL, but he takes real money instead from the Games Played bonus and Jets save a bit on the cap hit.

Getting the Games Played bonus takes 10+ games in NHL though so he will burn his first ELC year in 2018-19.

Assuming he plays the 10 games?