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There have been fewer reports about him than about Taro Tsujimoto – an imaginary ice hockey player, who was drafted 183rd overall (11th round) by the Buffalo Sabres during the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft. Punch Imlach, the GM of Sabres at the time, made the pick out of fun and because he was bored by the long drafting process back in those days. The truth was revealed months later, before the start of training camps.
But today, we’re talking about Denis Parshin – a player who really exists, a player who almost never appeared in non-Russian media. To be honest, it’s very hard to find any reliable information about him that isn’t written in Cyrillic.
Parshin’s name had been on the Avalanche website and in all of the team’s publications, e.g. media guides or even Farm Reports published every single week, for the longest amount of time among all players since 2004 – since the year when the Avalanche picked him with the 72th overall pick in the third round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. There wasn’t any other player from the Avalanche organization, who was on the organizational roster for a longer amount of time.
Parshin has never attended a training camp with the Avalanche. His only visit to the US likely occurred in 2004 during his draft day – according to official press photos (the only photos, in which Parshin is seen wearing an Avs jersey).
So why has his name been associated with the Avalanche for almost 13 years? Because of some crazy old rules, that’s why.
According to the old CBA (which had expired only weeks following the 2004 draft), NHL teams would retain the rights to a European player until that player turned 31. Parshin was 18 in 2004. He celebrates his 31st birthday today. That’s it.
We have no idea what will happen with the current Avalanche roster during the next hour, but we can be sure GM Joe Sakic won’t announce Parshin’s comeback. The Avs could’ve negotiated a contract with him since 2004 until today. Now, they can’t anymore and his name is expected to vanish from all official Avs-related publications and websites, and last but not least, from the organizational rosters, but not from the all-time draft reviews. His name will be part of Avalanche history forever.
Read our full story at Eurolanche.com for more info and also our forgotten meeting with Denis Parshin. For the first time ever, we reveal what happened when we asked Parshin on the interview about his Avalanche-experience. Photos are a part of the story too.
>>> http://eurolanche.com/article.php?id=9089
But today, we’re talking about Denis Parshin – a player who really exists, a player who almost never appeared in non-Russian media. To be honest, it’s very hard to find any reliable information about him that isn’t written in Cyrillic.
Parshin’s name had been on the Avalanche website and in all of the team’s publications, e.g. media guides or even Farm Reports published every single week, for the longest amount of time among all players since 2004 – since the year when the Avalanche picked him with the 72th overall pick in the third round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. There wasn’t any other player from the Avalanche organization, who was on the organizational roster for a longer amount of time.
Parshin has never attended a training camp with the Avalanche. His only visit to the US likely occurred in 2004 during his draft day – according to official press photos (the only photos, in which Parshin is seen wearing an Avs jersey).
So why has his name been associated with the Avalanche for almost 13 years? Because of some crazy old rules, that’s why.
According to the old CBA (which had expired only weeks following the 2004 draft), NHL teams would retain the rights to a European player until that player turned 31. Parshin was 18 in 2004. He celebrates his 31st birthday today. That’s it.
We have no idea what will happen with the current Avalanche roster during the next hour, but we can be sure GM Joe Sakic won’t announce Parshin’s comeback. The Avs could’ve negotiated a contract with him since 2004 until today. Now, they can’t anymore and his name is expected to vanish from all official Avs-related publications and websites, and last but not least, from the organizational rosters, but not from the all-time draft reviews. His name will be part of Avalanche history forever.
Read our full story at Eurolanche.com for more info and also our forgotten meeting with Denis Parshin. For the first time ever, we reveal what happened when we asked Parshin on the interview about his Avalanche-experience. Photos are a part of the story too.
>>> http://eurolanche.com/article.php?id=9089
