from Stephen Harris of the Boston Herald,

As of midnight Monday, the high-scoring left winger will become an unrestricted free agent, and, probably, the richest member of the Harvard Class of ’16.

Likely all 30 NHL clubs would love to add a 23-year-old player who is hard-working, smart, responsible, very talented (24-22-46 totals in 33 games last season for the Crimson en route to winning the Hobey Baker Award) and, at least in relatively inexpensive for the first two years.

Vesey is finalizing a list of no more than a half-dozen teams with which he’d like to speak.

He and his agents and family held a strategy meeting yesterday to nail down that short list and discuss the relative merits of the handful of finalists.

“Just to kind of finalize our thoughts,” Vesey’s agent, ex-Boston University goalie Peter Fish, said yesterday at the Beantown Summer Classic tournament here at New England Sports Center. “We’ve all been running around doing stuff this summer, but we’re finally getting down to the nitty-gritty.”

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