Are Parise & Suter About to Bring the nWo to the NHL?

Posted by Rick on Jul 03, 2012 23:01.

Since there haven't been any updates on the Zach Parise and Ryan Suter fronts, we now have things like this to talk about. From Michael Russo on Twitter:

Parise tells @joshrimerhockey "I'd love to play on a team w Ryan Suter. To get an opp. to play with him would be great."
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) July 4, 2012

Parise tells @joshrimerhockey Suter and he have been talking, and I know for a fact they plan to speak tonight
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) July 4, 2012

Welcome to the New World Order?

For speculation sake, which teams have the cap space to take on both contracts?

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Parise saga will go another day

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 03, 2012 19:55.

via Andy Strickland

Parise camp tells me probably no decision tonight...will resume tomorrow #NHL
— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) July 3, 2012

Must be one hell of a debate going internally with Zach Parise.

Day 4 four tomorrow.

At this point all logic has been thrown out the window. It is anyones guess.

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Jagr Signs With The Stars

Posted by Rick on Jul 03, 2012 17:45.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... you don't want to talk about Jagr. Whatev. It's either this or another Parise post.

According to Pierre LeBrun, Jaromir Jagr has signed a one-year contract with the Dallas Stars. A one-year contract worth $4.5 million.

FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.

Jagr made $3.3 million with Philadelphia last season.

This will be his first trip to the Western Conference. Do the Stars have a right-handed center?

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Is Parise stalling so Devils can get money?

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 03, 2012 16:21.

Read of the day by Mike Colligan over at the Hockey Writers. Mike wonders if the Devils are stalling Parise. [ Hockey Writers ]

This is purely speculation, but as the process drags on, is it possible the Devils could be asking Parise to stall his decision in an attempt to secure a last-minute resolution to the debt concerns?

The free agent market has come to a screeching halt around the league as teams and player representatives wait for the Parise situation to play itself out.

This almost makes too much sense. There are a bunch of reports that the Devils are basically guilting Parise into staying. So maybe he is giving the Devils a last chance to come up with the cash.

The plot thickens.

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Parise lands at MSP, " Still no timeable,"

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 03, 2012 13:32.

MSP is the Minnesota airport in case anyone cares

Beat writer Michael Russo:

talked to Zach Parise at MSP. He says he has not made a decision and he and his fiancée will talk today. "that has not started." #MNWild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) July 3, 2012

Does Parise not have a cell phone, or maybe skype? Very bizarre.

Andy Strickland, who has been on about shit before, had this cryptic tweet:

I'm not suggesting Parise is lying, but multiple players who know him very well made it clear he's made a decision #NHL
— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) July 3, 2012

And so the drama goes on.

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Time lapse of the Civic Arena coming down

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 03, 2012 11:10.

This post isn't about Zach Parise.

Via Seah Leahy on Twitter. The Igloo falls in 31 seconds.

This is depressing and awesome:

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Day 3 of the Zach Parise hostage situation

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 03, 2012 09:26.

Today is day 3 of the Zach Parise hostage crisis.

The common tone right now amongst some people is " he deserves as much time as possible, he is making the biggest decision of his life..."

Our initial reaction was this:

We just wanted to say fuck you, Zach, make a decision on where you are going to sign your 100 million contract.

In fact this actually might be the greatest #whitepeopleproblem of all time.

But after thinking about it makes sense he didn't sign anywhere yet.

Breakdown:

Day 1, Sunday: Parise starts getting offers and is staggered. Agents probably have to read over a bunch of shit, and they eliminate the teams that he doesn't want to go to.

Day 2, Monday: Parise and his agents go over his shortlist, and field calls from suitors. Brodeur probably gets emo on him. The Blackhawks cloud everything. Parise wants to go over shit with his family. Decision

Day 3, Tuesday:Decision day. Parise probably talked to his family last night and decided. He and his soon to be wife were probably looking at houses in whatever city.

So yea, got a feeling the decision comes today.

No clue on where, but we'd have to think at this point it Pens are probably still in because they haven't done anything else yet. All signs point to either the Wild or Devils though.

Go pens.

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So apparently Parise will make a decision late tonight or tomorrow morning

Posted by TPB Staff on Jul 02, 2012 17:55.

What even:

I'm also told Parise is close to a decision and that could come late tonight or tomorrow morning #mnwild #nhl
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) July 2, 2012

Could be Parise is flying home to Minnesota to announce he signed with the hometown Wild, or maybe not.

No idea, let's just hope it ends at this point.

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