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What’s Going On With Zach Parise?
by Paul on 12/17/10 at 02:00 PM ET
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Adam Proteau of The Hockey News opens his email bag…
Adam, with Zach Parise becoming a restricted free agent after the season, will a team try and sign him to an offer sheet? Let’s say Toronto throws an offer at him that the Devils can’t match. Would the Leafs have to surrender two first round picks, a second and a third as compensation?
If Parise makes it to the summer without a contract extension from the Devils, there will be a bunch of teams fighting to tender him an offer sheet. The compensation you’re mentioning would be surrendered for a player who signed for between $6.1- and $7.7-million. If a team has to offer more than that to land Parise as an RFA, the compensation jumps to four first round draft picks. For clubs owing four draft selections in the same round as compensation, they must have those picks available in the next five drafts. Clubs also cannot acquire picks to then use as compensation.
That said, having watched Lou Lamoriello work his magic on the league for as long as I have, I’d bet you anything Parise never makes it to the market. Some might say Lamoriello would be wrapping himself and the franchise even tighter in a salary cap straightjacket by signing Parise, but I think he’d demote half the team to the American League to get under the cap and keep one of the best two-way players in the game.
If I’m wrong and Parise is allowed to move on, the Devils’ woeful offense this season will look like the 1980s-era Oilers in comparison. But I’m not wrong. He’s staying.
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That said, having watched Lou Lamoriello work his magic on the league for as long as I have, I’d bet you anything Parise never makes it to the market.
Loved the magic he worked last year and over the summer.
Posted by HockeytownOverhaul on 12/17/10 at 03:07 PM ET