Blueshirt Banter · Mar 29, 2019
Does Vinni Lettieri have an NHL future?
Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesThere are not many players who can boast that they scored a goal in their first NHL game. Some famous examples include Mario Lemieux, Luc Robitaille, Jonathan Toews, and Auston Matthews — who was just showing off when he scored four goals in his NHL debut.
Another player on that exclusive list is New York Rangers winger Vinni Lettieri. Unlike the aforementioned stars, it took Lettieri 39 games to score his second career NHL goal. Of course, Lettieri wasn’t a can’t-miss prospect like Lemieux, Toews, or Matthews when he scored his first goal on Dec. 29, 2017; he was an undrafted college free agent that was a longshot to make it to the show.