Zach Parise
Zach Parise
Zachary Justin Pariséis an American professional ice hockey left winger of French-Canadian heritage, an alternate captain for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League. He has also played for the New Jersey Devils, where he served as team captain and led the team to the 2012 Stanley Cup Final. Parise's father, J. P. Parisé, was a professional ice hockey player who played for Team Canada at the 1972 Summit Series, and his brother Jordan Parise is a retired professional...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth28 July 1984
CityMinneapolis, MN
I loved Robbie down there. He was good for me. He was a good skill coach.
I knew the team was counting on me to take it to the next step. I had to elevate my game. And I know I did that.
It's so much fun in the locker room. Guys enjoy coming to the rink and we're showing it on the ice. Everything is coming together for us.
I'm happy with the way I'm playing, ... I'm out there with some very talented players and I'm trying my best to fit in.
It was more of a blur than anything, ... I just had a couple whacks at it and when it went in it was just excitement. It was an unbelievable feeling.
We kind of saw some video before the game. (We saw) some things we can take advantage of.
The way we've been playing, we've been playing well against quality teams. From here on out, we've got to do that every night.
You've got to win. Especially a game against Philadelphia. You're looking at the standings and you want to climb. That's our main concern right now is winning our own games.
It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of playing with them. I know I have to be at the top of my game every night - I don't want to be the weak link.
That just shows how far along we've come and our ability, the way that we can play. We're a completely different team than from the beginning of the year.
They tried to rim the puck out of the zone and Sergei made a good play. He found me streaking to the backside. I just tried to lift it over his pad.
I'm approaching like all the other guys - I want to make the team. There's obviously extra incentive there that wasn't there last year. But we're all here for a reason and that's to make the team.
We can't seem to buy one right now.
Robbie was great and put me in a lot of situations, a lot of power play and a lot of penalty kill. Any time you can get a year of pro experience under your belt is great. Coming right of college I needed to adjust to the pro game from college and that season was great for me.