eco's bones
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NYR been very active w drafted college guys who hadn't signed - Gilmour, Vesey, Hayes
but undrafted college skaters
who signed first NHL deal w NYR
and had reasonable NHL career
can't think of too many in recent times...
post-lockout, who besides Pionk? ... and Gilroy (225 games)
these are guys who came to mind,
lemme know who i forgot
Pavelich, McPhee (surprisingly few NHL games at 144 incl PS), Ortmeyer
Pionk, Thomas Poeck, Bothwell
Graf might sign with his hometown Boston team. Some players will definitely look up and down a team's roster both on the team and prospects and make a decision from that because they want to have some kind of opening. Sometimes udfa's sign with teams because they'll give them NHL games right off. Sometimes it's the venue and that's where MSG can work in our favor.
The Rangers don't really have openings on the main roster right now and we have a lot of good prospect forwards. My guess is Graf is more likely to sign with the Bruins (than us) who have iffy scoring depth up front and because the Bruins have been trading top draft picks for a while now and so don't have a lot of prospect depth either.