Zachary Justin Parise (born
July 28, 1984) is an American
professional
ice hockey player and an alternate captain of
the New Jersey Devils of the
National Hockey League
(NHL). In his breakout
2008–09 season, Parise was the
league's third leading goal scorer (45) behind
Jeff Carter with 46 and league leader
Alexander Ovechkin with 56 , while
ranking fifth among all NHL players in points with 94.
Playing career
Parise, son of former
Minnesota
North Stars centerman
J. P. Parise, played
high school hockey for four seasons at Shattuck-St.
Mary's
in Faribault
, Minnesota
. His final two years at Shattuck-St.Mary's,
he scored 146 goals and 194 assists. In 2002 he went on to play for
the
University of North
Dakota. In 2002–03 while playing for the North Dakota Fighting
Sioux hockey team, he was named to the
Western Collegiate Hockey
Association's All Rookie Team and All Conference 3rd team. In
2004 he was nominated a second time for the
Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the
National Collegiate Athletic Association’s top player.
Parise was drafted 17th overall (1st round) in the
2003 NHL Entry Draft by the
New Jersey Devils. His father,
J. P., is
a retired ice hockey player and his brother,
Jordan, is currently a
goaltender on
EC
Red Bull Salzburg of the
Austrian Hockey League.. In 2004, at
the
University of North
Dakota, Parise was a first team All-American his sophomore
year.
Parise was the MVP of the 2004
IIHF World Junior
Championship, won by the United States.
After the
2004–05 NHL
lockout resulted in the cancellation of the season, Parise made
his delayed debut in the NHL for the
2005–06 season. In
his rookie year, Parise played in all but one game, totaling 14
goals and 18 assists for 32 points. The
following season,
Parise opened the Devils' year by setting a franchise record for
scoring the quickest season-opening goal, 26 seconds into their
opener. For the season, he nearly doubled his scoring output of the
previous season, totaling 62 points. He posted a similarly
dependable performance for the
2007-08 season,
leading the team with 65 points. On November 30, 2007 of that
season, in a game against the
Montreal Canadiens, Parise got his first
National Hockey League
natural hat
trick.
On April 28, 2008, it was announced that Parise has been named an
alternate captain of the 2008 U.S. Men's National Team in the 72nd
annual
IIHF
World Championship.
On October 3, 2009, Parise was named an
alternate captain for the Devils.
Parise's breakout season came in his
4th year in the NHL, which
saw the Devils increase their scoring output by nearly half a goal
per game, breaking away from the team's image as a mostly defensive
team. Playing with
Travis Zajac and
captain
Jamie Langenbrunner on
the "ZZ Pop" line (a play on the name of popular rock band
ZZ Top), Parise was very much responsible for the
team's offensive turn, ranking as high as third in the NHL in goals
and fifth in the NHL in points.
He made his first All-Star appearance at the
2009 NHL All-Star Game in
Montreal
, Quebec
, in which he
scored a goal. He also set the Devils record for shots in a
season in 2009. Parise, along with
Pavel
Datsyuk and
Martin St. Louis,
was nominated for the
Lady
Byng Memorial Trophy for the 2008-2009 season. The trophy is
presented each year to the National Hockey League "player adjudged
to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly
conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability." .
Parise is sponsored by
Easton.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International play
Played for the
United States
in:
International statistics
| Year |
Event |
|
GP |
G |
A |
Pts |
PIM |
| 2008 |
WC |
7 |
5 |
3 |
8 |
2 |
| Senior int'l totals |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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