Ryan Vesce

Ryan Vesce ( born April 7, 1982 in Lloyd Harbor, New York ) is an American professional ice hockey player who plays for KHL Zagreb Medveščak on the position of the right winger since June 2013.

Career

Vesce played during his junior career for the University team at Cornell University in the ECAC Hockey, a league game in the operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Between 2000 and 2004 the skilled winger completed 131 games in four seasons for the team and scored an average of about one point per game scorer. His best game of the year in the course of his studies, he played in the 2002/03 season when he scored 45 points in 36 matches.

Despite solid performances during his time at the University Vesce in the NHL Entry Drafts had remained unnoticed and therefore moved in the summer of 2004 as a free agent in the senior level. He signed a contract with Rögle BK from the second-rate Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan, with whom he missed promotion to the Elitserien. The native Americans did this in his first professional season quite convincing with 45 points in 43 games. Nevertheless Vesce changed in the summer of 2005 back to North America where he had signed a one-year contract with the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League, an official partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. There, too, the striker acclimatized well and reached 67 points scorer in 80 games. He was the most successful scorer of the entire team, which nevertheless clearly missed the playoffs. In the ensuing summer break Vesce did not renew his contract and moved within the league as a free agent in the franchise of the Binghamton Senators. He could not come close to the point production from last year though, but was associated with 51 points still to be found among the best scorers of the team.

Since Vesce had also signed in Binghamton only a contract with a validity of one year, he left the team after failing to qualify for the playoffs and moved back to Europe. There he joined before the game year 2007/ 08 the Finnish SM- liiga club HIFK Helsinki. In the Finnish tradition club he played together with Steve Guolla. Vesce, who was his team's best scorer with 44 points again, just like Guolla had been instrumental in the successful qualification for the playoffs. There, however, the team failed in the first round. His stint in the SM- liiga ended after only one year because Vesce returned back to the United States. On 13 August 2008 he signed a contract with the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, who use it in their AHL farm team, the Worcester Sharks. There he was appointed captain and successor of migrated Graham Mink just before the season starts. This trust is paid, the striker the team and coaching staff with good performances back, which he was first nominated for the AHL All-Star Classic. In addition, he received subsequent to the charity match for the first time an invitation to the NHL squad San Jose, but was again summoned before his first back in the AHL. Just two weeks later, on 11 February 2009, he finally gave up after a new appeal against the Pittsburgh Penguins be NHL debut.

In summer 2010, he joined the Continental Hockey League to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, for which he was the following two years of playing actively. He then moved to Skellefteå AIK of the Elitserien, before he was released to the Espoo Blues in January 2013.

Since early summer 2013 Vesce is the KHL rookie KHL Medveščak Zagreb under contract.

Awards and achievements

• 2009 AHL All- Star Classic

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )