Confirmed with Link: Avs sign Zach Parise, 1-year, $825k

[the_fan]

Is Parise gonna be ready to play on Monday vs NY?

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Is Parise gonna be ready to play on Monday vs NY?

Probably, but I don't think we'll hear for sure till tomorrow or Monday.

 

[JoeSakic13]

He’s been with us a week and hasn’t contributed anything.

Waste of a roster slot.

 

[Muffin]

It'll be nice to have someone good around the net with Landeskog and Nuke out

 

[BobRossColton]

It'll be nice to have someone good around the net with Landeskog and Nuke out

Yeah the majority of these goals are definitely playoff style goals.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

He’s been with us a week and hasn’t contributed anything.

Waste of a roster slot.

I thought this guy was supposed to be a hard worker, he’s taken as many strides as RyJo and Rantanen and that’s not a good thing!

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Yeah excited about him joining the team. This lives around the net. He will help a lot with Nuke out. Works hard. Forecheck hard. Goes to the net hard. And can score. Typical Bernar-type player.

 

[Avs9296]

I think he's going to help fill a little bit of that leadership void from Landy being out. A consummate pro similar to Cogs who's been in the league forever and brings it every night. Somebody people look up to.

I don't expect him to be a vocal leader, at least right away, since he's joining a new team mid way thru the season and probably doesn't want to step on any toes, but he's going to be leading by example.

 

[Gumballhead]

We might be talking about him like a
legend by the end of this season.

 

[Metallo]

This is going to test me, because as people know, in my view, anything that is associated with, or touches/has touched the Minnesota Wild organization, is arse to me. I think I need to see him in an AVS jersey to wash away that green diarrhoea from the systems.

Unsure why we didn't keep Tomas Tatar, who has 10 points in 18 games (plus 12) for the Kraken?

BUT, like always happens, the minute I see Parise giving his all for the burgundy and blue, he's an AV, for life, and I'll love him.

Yeah, squid tartar is better than expected.

 

[Foppa2118]

Tatar had a good start with 4 points in the first 3 games, but he has 6 points in the 15 games after.

 

[Potvottier]

Isles fan here. You are going to like him.

Good guy, good at all aspects of the game, and hard worker. Perfect 3rd liner, if paired with a few smart, fast players.

If the Isles don't win, I hope you guys do.

 

[Foppa2118]

I'm already perfectly fine with Parise's speed. It's better than you'd expect. You can see why he ranks high in burst speed too.

He still plays like a gamer every game too. His whole career he's had a habit of coming out of the corner, or along the boards with the puck when you don't expect him to, and creating a good scoring chance with a good shot.

He's already demonstrated this multiple times in two games. This is going to be huge in the playoffs in games where they need an individual effort to help them come back, or be the difference in a close game.

 

[Pokecheque]

I'm surprised they haven't tried Parise on the power play yet. Maybe they'll do so now. I definitely would take either Lehkonen or Drouin off there immediately.

 

[Chileiceman]

I hated Parise so much after that 2014 playoff series, so strange seeing him an Avs jersey. But he's been good so far. He can really move for his age.

 

[PAZ]

It's funny how all the older vets like Cogs, Helm, and Parise have no problem fitting into Bednar's system but guys half their age can't keep up.

 

[sethro109]

It's funny how all the older vets like Cogs, Helm, and Parise have no problem fitting into Bednar's system but guys half their age can't keep up.

You can also throw JJ in there too. He was a mess with the Pens before he came here.

 

[BobRossColton]

Put Parise, lehky, Colton, Malinski and Girard on the 2nd PP.

 

[S E P H]

I hated Parise so much after that 2014 playoff series, so strange seeing him an Avs jersey. But he's been good so far. He can really move for his age.

I agree with this, but I still hate him (not as a person, but how much he destroyed us during our rivalry with Wild). However, he looks really fresh but that is due to not playing half of the season.

 

[MildAvaholic]

Can't win a game with the guy in the line-up.....

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I hated Parise so much after that 2014 playoff series, so strange seeing him an Avs jersey. But he's been good so far. He can really move for his age.

I tell you, I have always respected Parise, but I have also always absolutely hated him. He's been an Avs killer his whole career. It seems like he always scores on us.

But the minute we signed him, the switch flipped and I love the guy. Only other player to do that to me, was Darren Helm. Let's hope this ends the same way.

 

[Pokecheque]

So far, I love the scrappiness and absolutely fearless play. Dude gets into the dirty areas and fights like hell. He's obviously missed a step but he's hardly the worst skater on the ice at any given moment. The ability to create offense on his own is mostly gone, but he's still an effective player.

Now...on the other hand, the numbers suggest he's really, really bad defensively, and frankly the eye test supports this. That's why I was really starting to hate pairing him with Johansen, because that only served to exacerbate his flaws, and I'm not surprised he scored his first goal in Burgundy when he was on the ice with different linemates.

It's concerning to me that the Avs are currently missing their two best two-way players (by far) and have a lot of players up front who simply aren't good in their own end of the ice. I'm not lamenting the signing at all--it's still a very low-risk, potentially high-reward signing--but it also does more to hurt the Avs than help in one very important area.

 

[NateTheGreat]

So far, I love the scrappiness and absolutely fearless play. Dude gets into the dirty areas and fights like hell. He's obviously missed a step but he's hardly the worst skater on the ice at any given moment. The ability to create offense on his own is mostly gone, but he's still an effective player.

Now...on the other hand, the numbers suggest he's really, really bad defensively, and frankly the eye test supports this. That's why I was really starting to hate pairing him with Johansen, because that only served to exacerbate his flaws, and I'm not surprised he scored his first goal in Burgundy when he was on the ice with different linemates.

It's concerning to me that the Avs are currently missing their two best two-way players (by far) and have a lot of players up front who simply aren't good in their own end of the ice. I'm not lamenting the signing at all--it's still a very low-risk, potentially high-reward signing--but it also does more to hurt the Avs than help in one very important area.

Yeah it doesn’t help that Cogs has taken a significant step back in that area of the ice as well, because ideally you’d have both Parise and Cogs on the 4th line together. Now I’m not so sure that’s a great idea.

 

[dahrougem2]

So far, I love the scrappiness and absolutely fearless play. Dude gets into the dirty areas and fights like hell. He's obviously missed a step but he's hardly the worst skater on the ice at any given moment. The ability to create offense on his own is mostly gone, but he's still an effective player.

Now...on the other hand, the numbers suggest he's really, really bad defensively, and frankly the eye test supports this. That's why I was really starting to hate pairing him with Johansen, because that only served to exacerbate his flaws, and I'm not surprised he scored his first goal in Burgundy when he was on the ice with different linemates.

It's concerning to me that the Avs are currently missing their two best two-way players (by far) and have a lot of players up front who simply aren't good in their own end of the ice. I'm not lamenting the signing at all--it's still a very low-risk, potentially high-reward signing--but it also does more to hurt the Avs than help in one very important area.

I don't think anything can be extrapolated defensively from Parise's game until he's no longer stapled to that sack of trash Johansen.

Connor McDavid wouldn't look good playing with this bum.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Parise confirms this will be his last NHL season

Zach Parise is planning on hanging 'em up after this season. "Yeah, this is it," he said earlier this week in an interview with NHL.com's Tom Gulitti. "This is it."Parise signed a one-year, $825,000 deal with the Colorado Avalanche as an unrestricted free agent in late January. He made his...

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