That was an amazing moment! Whenever someone mentions Zach Parise I think of that goal, and that jump against the boards.

He was a better player then at half the cost.

Yeah, that -14 goal differential is not a problem. Hustle is really what matters.

@@Katie-hb8iq Ma'am this is a Wendy's

Came to say the same thing. In a season that has been tough to watch, at least he plays with heart every night, unlike the majority of the team this season. He was also pretty unlucky the start of the season production wise. Game of inches and he could be around the 10-15 goal mark atm which is good for an entry level contract. Wouldn't be surprised if he moves to another contention team at the end of the season, even as a depth player

@@Katie-hb8iq That started years ago in Minnesota. I told fans that Parise had horrible WOWY stats, and they said, "But he passes the Eye Test." The writing was on the wall, but they could not read it.

He is an amazing signing? Would he have been at $7 million per season? The Islanders picked up a scrappy player at a rock bottom price.

Him and Suter should go in together

Well... I don't think Zach swung his stick at a ref ;)

ROOSTER!!!

Not even Mikko Koivu?

@@bangyahead1 Koivu has that gene too. Still the face of the franchise in my eyes even with the Kirill show in full throttle

I just Googled it - during Parise's draft year, he continued to play hockey despite having a knee injury (sprained mcl). For some GMs, I suppose size might have been a concern, too, but I think it was mostly about the knee.

Trotz notoriously breaks up lines that are producing to try to fix lines that are not. What usually ends up happening is no one produces. One reason why the islanders are 31st in goals for.

@@xjpsmithx But the isles haven't been an offense team for several years anyway, and that seem to work out fine since. There is clearly more problem than Trotz breaking up a single line.

@@jkliao6486 theres a major defensive lapse, they traded devon toews and more recently leddy...the hiring of old vets like green and chara to fill the gaps isnt cutting it, but it is helping to develop dobson and aho

@@jkliao6486 Pulock and Pelech, best tandem D pair in the league last year. Trotz - "can't have that. Break them up!"

Lol not even close

after they joined the team together for a couple of seasons

It's what anyone would do for a friend.

Parise got me into hockey when I saw my first hockey game in the Vancouver Olympics and he had the game tying goal. Been watching the NHL ever since.

The only constant in the Minnesota Wild's failures is the state of Minnesota

Damn, those numbers are baaad. I didn't realize how fucked the Wild were until this. I thought with Kaprizov coming in the Wild were one good Center trade or draft pick away form being a contender. But with that much dead cap.........yeah thats not happening.

Can’t dismiss the locker room culture change either, I think it was a great call by GM BG

@@The_OvP Is it though? That locker room culture is collapsing as we speak

Yeah, he is one of the reasons why the NHL instituted rules limiting contracts to 8 years if you had rights to the player and 7 years if not. 13 years is a rediculous contract length. Surely the player is going to be washed up by that time, especially if they are already a seven or eight year veteran. The put that rule in to protect GM's from their own stupidity.

@@The_OvP This was my thought on the buyouts. They needed a culture change in the locker room, and I feel it worked. Now if the wild can sustain that environment will be the real factor. I feel Zac was due to performance, and Rayn must have been solely based on team chemistry moving forward.

Congrats on tournament win!

@@chocomilkfps1264 thank you man

Suter is done. He's a pylon. That last high ankle sprain put him over the edge into "too slow to play the game."

@@genericchannel5899 Still better than our current defensemen

Maybe the fact that Suter pretty much sucks these days had a lot to do with it. It's amazing he hits the glass when he misses the net by 20 feet. He chokes the puck up without being pressured. Against Minnesota this week he passed the puck straight to an opposing player who was alone in the slot. Luckily Oettenger bailed him out on that or it would have been 1-0 less than four minutes into the first period, because of his stupidity. For every smart defensive play he makes, he makes two mistakes. Dallas Signing him was a HUGE mistake.

@@FirearmofMutiny Minnesota must have really bad defenseman. He's the worst defenseman on the Stars roster.

@@FirearmofMutiny I would take Brodin, Spurgeon, Dumba, and Goose over Suter at this point in their careers, even though Goose is also showing his age. Kuli and Merril are great as 5/6D, but we've been asking way too much of them while half of our top 4 was out.

From the many reports I have heard, Parise and Suter were toxic in the locker room. They did what they wanted, challenged lines and pairings, and even had the practice facility moved closer to their homes before the Wild began practicing at Xcel arena. Suter often called the owner directly if he was upset with the coach or GM.

@@Too-Odd Too add on to this, there was no way either of those two would move to the fourth line. They saw themselves as the leaders, the best guys on the team. Their production didn't match anything-their position on the team, their pay, their toxicity. I think one of the more subtle things was that they didn't seem to elevate the play of those around them. I look at the synergy now between various players and don't recall seeing anything like that with Parise or Suter in Minnesota. They were islands-talented loners, but loners nonetheless. It's clear that Guerin was freeing up the room for this year, giving the team two things: room for Kap, Fialla, and Zucc to cook, and room to rotate in some of the young players and seeing what they've got. That second part is important because the cap hit next year means you're losing someone, it's unavoidable, and that was always true with or without the buyout. So getting a chance to regain competitive while gauging your young players and where you need to patch holes is very valuable. Add in some cap jiggery-pokery and the fact that caps tend to rise while the buyout payments will remain static means that the dead cap percentage should lower over time. It's a little counter-intuitive, but I still think the move is bold and clever.

@@c.v.emmans The NHL should have allowed teams to shift contract payments and buyouts into any applicable season, but the owners basically gave Minnesota the kiss of death for those two contracts. It would have been great to move some of that buyout money to this year to help even it out or to be able to frontload a contract this season to keep a player through those huge dead albatross seasons.

@@c.v.emmans most of those claims of them being cancer were told by evason and guerin. Two guys who have shown they have massive fucking egos.

@@c.v.emmans parise was put on the 4th line his last year and didn't complain at all. Also you are forgetting not only are we paying their cap hits, we are paying other guys to replace them so that adds on even more cap that cost us guys. If we still had suter instead of goligoski we could have kept fiala.

The team around them wasn't the best either. A lot of prospects that just didn't live up to their abilities.

@@JarradBruessel32 that's fair

@@brunellecooper yeah. Like nino, granlund, zucker, coyle and a few others just never lived up to their billing

1. Alex Tuch + whatever else for Vegas to choose Erik Haula instead of Matt Dumba 2. Dumba's current deal (probably about $1.5m-$2m too high of AAV and it might cost them Fiala this offseason) 3. Mikko's last two contracts with the Wild 4. The Martin Hanzal trade 5. Cam Barker for Nick Leddy

As claimed by guerin who has a massive fucking ego and is a total asshat.