Agent confirms Vesey's intent to speak with Blackhawks

For Jimmy Vesey and the Chicago Blackhawks, the interest is apparently mutual.

Vesey's agent, Peter Donatelli, stated Monday that the Harvard graduate will want to talk to the Blackhawks when he becomes a free agent next month, but quickly followed up that confirmed interest with this caveat.

"Chicago will be on the list," Donatelli said in an interview with Scott Powers of The Athletic, "but it shouldn't be read as they're ahead of anyone else."

Meanwhile, Stan Bowman's interest in the reigning Hobey Baker winner is seemingly without qualification. The Blackhawks' GM is believed to have scouted Vesey on multiple occasions this summer in his persisting search for cost-effective assets to filter talent into the gaps in his lineup.

Donatelli also told Powers the presentations given to Vesey will factor heavily into his decision.