Zach Parise?

Do want!

yes yes yes yes yes. That would be awesome.
I hate hockey rumors. They get me all excited for nothing..

Bruce Garrioch. Malkin to the Kings.

I’d be down with Parise to the Bruins, but it ain’t gonna happen.

nom nom nom THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOAWWWWW

im not gonna allow myself to believe this is a possibility, because if i do, and it dosnt happen, i will be crushed

Personally, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if Parise were traded. Jersey shore is all types of screwed up right now. I don’t think Parise wants to be there anymore than anyone else right now. I think for him to come to Boston we would have to part ways with something of equal value. We can’t sugar coat a deal for one of the best players in the game right now for Wheeler and a few picks. Though the Toronto pick would at least make the deal a consideration.

Short answer- no.

Long Answer- no.

For what it’s worth (and I refuse to believe a Parise trade to Boston has more than a 1% chance of happening), NJ has a major cap problem brewing. They’re looking at $9 – $10M in cap space for next year, which would be more than enough to sign Parise…

BUT, they have just 14 players under contract, and 6 of them have no movement clauses. Signing Parise to a long term deal, with that roster as it is, would make it impossible to fill out the rest of their team, even with minimum salary players, unless the cap goes way up. A lot of those contracts are going to be damn hard to trade, even without sweet-talking the players into waiving their NMCs.

Patrik Elias is one of the few who teams might be willing to take without demanding NJ take an awful salary in return, but he has an NMC, and has been a Devil almost as long as Brodeur. Andy Greene, at a mere $737,000, has been their best defenseman. He should have some trade value. Maybe they go to some other team and say “we’ll trade you Andy Greene if you take Henrik Tallinder’s deal too.” Travis Zajac’s contract isn’t completely awful relative to his performance. Other than that, though, you wouldn’t touch those guys with a 10 foot pole.

Odds are, they’ll find some way to offload a big contract or two to keep Parise, but it’s not unthinkable that they might have to trade him.

Parise is my favorite player next to Bergeron, and that would be just too sweet to happen. Man, that would be awesome to see those two play together though. I’ve been waiting for Parise to go somewhere good for a long time, maybe he’ll at least get traded somewhere with a decent center for him. But it all comes down to whether or not Parise WANTS to stay or go. Whichever he chooses is probably which way the GM would lean in his decision.

Parise is a great, but not top-tier/elite Wing in the NHL (If Ovechkin, Malkin, D. Sedin are a “10” by current league standards, Parise’s an 8.5-9) – couple that with a modest injury concern coming back this year and an expiring contract (even if the Devils will retain RFA rights on him), and I think he could be had for the right price. Don’t forget, with that albatross Ilya Kovalchuk they signed last year, the Devils have some cap problems to think about.

If I was to guess, I’d say it’d cost (at least) Toronto’s 1st round pick this year (likely a top-10 pick), plus a player with a little bit of value (ex. Blake Wheeler) and a good prospect like Hamill or Colborne (or potentially Kampfer) – but I think it can be done…

Having the devils in salary cap purgatory puts them in a bad spot. But can we resign him and fit under the cap for next year with what we have signed because if we could i would saw bye to wheeler in a heart beat and I dont care who the Devils get with the pick. Parise IMO is a great player and a great leader. Even being a Canadian when I was watching the Olympic tourney last year there were two Americans that really stood out and seemed to go to another level in Ryan Kessler and Parise they were unreal and Kessler has turned that into 30 or so goals this year and Parise would be a 30 goal guy for us. I think if we can seemingly somehow fit him in our future I say this is the deal to go after.

Even though I have been all about a puck moving defenceman I just think that Parise is the type of talent that could really push us over the top. Hes great in his own end and can play the PK and PP…hes a top line player and hes only 26!!!

I know Im getting over excited but Parise would be a great fit for the B’s