Compliance Buyout: Mats Zuccarello or Zach Parise?

[Placid]

Well.. Zuccarello has landed far short of where everyone expected him to be (including Zucc himself, im sure). So its a question of "how to get the most for your compliance buyout money".

Purely financially, that would be Parise, which has both a larger contract and is also (3 years ?) older than Zuccarello. He is also under contract until he is 40 i believe ?

So from that standpoint, the choice should be easy. But the problem is that Parise is playing better than Zuccarello... While Parise will most likely decline, there is no guarantee that Zuccarello will elevate his game from his current play, so i honestly dont know. And adding my "Norwegian goggles" to be mix, im staying far away from voting, hehe..

All i can say is that i am sorry that Zucc isn't playing better, and i hope he'll get his act together next year.. he's been playing better than this his entire career.. and now, when he finally gets some security.. he seemingly falls apart at the seams... we can only hope that someone lights a fire beneath his... ehh.. yeah

 

[SupremeNachos]

Watch Zucc go off for like 60pts+ next year getting all our hopes up only to return to his 40pt ill timed passing self.

 

[fentonsbrainchild]

Watch Zucc go off for like 60pts+ next year getting all our hopes up only to return to his 40pt ill timed passing self.

Well if he’s on a line with Fiala that would make sense

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

with the cap rising to 84-88 rangers would have room to take zucarello back i'd hope for 2-2nds. im not ready to buyout parise. dubnyk and rask before zucarello & parise who are both still useful.

If they wanted him back for that money they would have signed him.

That contract is straight up booty cheeks.

 

[grN1g]

With how the wild started winning, and the amazing stories we have got from Russo and Parises podcast interview. I dont believe we are going to revisit any sort of trade with zach or believe he still has doubts about the future with how Fiala is breaking out, Ek is growing into a true professional and Kaprizov is coming. I could see them working out a compliance buyout and resign scenario potentially but that's kinda pipe dream.

Imagine the heart break of Zachs daughter if he doesn't play with her favorite friend anymore? Sad.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Not Parise

 

[IHaveNoCreativity]

This is tough, I’d rather Parise because the trade returns would be distarous.

 

[AKL]

With how the wild started winning, and the amazing stories we have got from Russo and Parises podcast interview. I dont believe we are going to revisit any sort of trade with zach or believe he still has doubts about the future with how Fiala is breaking out, Ek is growing into a true professional and Kaprizov is coming. I could see them working out a compliance buyout and resign scenario potentially but that's kinda pipe dream.

Imagine the heart break of Zachs daughter if he doesn't play with her favorite friend anymore? Sad.

Not only is it a pipe dream, it’s illegal.

 

[Webster]

What I originally wrote here is no longer relevant, as I learned that the chance of a compliance buyout after this season is close to zero.