ast Parise comment. Russo said one day last week on KFAN that it has turned pretty messy behind the scenes and he doesn’t see either side moving past the issue to the point of ZP staying with the team long term. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that the captain did not except responsibility for his actions in Vegas and instead turned it into he was doing what he thought was right instead of what the coach thought was right even to the point of him saying the players agree with me and that’s all that matters.
I don’t see him stepping on the ice for the Wild again. You know the owner loves ZP so for Billy G to get an ok or at least support from the owner afar says a lot about how messy this has gotten.
I think you’re right but even given what seems to have happened behind the scenes, I have to ask is this any way to run a hockey team in the playoffs and beyond?
To me this spat about Parise and not playing him is cutting off the team’s nose to spite its face. Not playing him only reduces his (already limited) value even further. By doing this, the Wild are admitting that they must trade him at all costs to the team so that just makes his value even lower and increases the hit the team will have to take to move him. Certainly, it wouldn’t be any worse with him in the lineup, so now we are sinking a tough deal even further into the mud.
Just another terrific situation left to us by our terrible string of the worst GMs in hockey. The consensus inside hockey even at the time was that 13-year contracts were CRAZY. And now we know that this was exactly right AND this is X2 because The Fletch did it to us twice. What if something happens to Suter with years still left on his deal, which will seem like some very long years if his productivity should take a big nosedive whereas his cap hit or recpature won’t.
