Confirmed Trade: [COL/NYR] Ryan Lindgren (50% retained), Jimmy Vesey, Hank Kempf, for Juuso Parssinen, Calvin de Haan, 2025 2nd round pick, 2025 4th round pick

[JoeSakic13]

Happy for him. He's got a lot of more potential earnings on the table if he can rejuvenate his NHL career. was certain he was bound for Europe and likely retired by 32. I'd just be very cautious about the term. But if he just plays out as a rental I'm pleased he's been popular over there.

Yeah I’m worried about the term if Colorado re-ups him. Fingers crossed on a “show me that wasn’t a fluke” deal.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Jusso Parssinen is brutal.

How did this guy ever make the NHL?

0 SOG and points in 7 games for the Rangers. Totally useless.

 

[Richard88]

Lindgren what a steal by the avalanche. Drury is the santa claus of the NHL last night kakko ripped 2 goals also. As a bruins fan I want drury to stay in place.

What does Drury want for Schneider? Might as well strike again while the iron is hot...

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Jusso Parssinen is brutal.

How did this guy ever make the NHL?

0 SOG and points in 7 games for the Rangers. Totally useless.

Get ready to learn KHL/SHL-nese, buddy

 

[mattihp]

Get ready to learn KHL/SHL-nese, buddy

I don't know what kind of glasses one is not wearing when thinking a Finn would go to the KHL. Possibly white, long and clicky

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

What does Drury want for Schneider? Might as well strike again while the iron is hot...

Girard+Behrens

 

[RangersFan1994]

Lindgren what a steal by the avalanche. Drury is the santa claus of the NHL last night kakko ripped 2 goals also. As a bruins fan I want drury to stay in place.

I wish this bonehead would get fired. Worst GM in NHL history

 

[Richard88]

Girard+Behrens

How about Colton + Behrens

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Lindgren what a steal by the avalanche. Drury is the santa claus of the NHL last night kakko ripped 2 goals also. As a bruins fan I want drury to stay in place.

Lol buddy, you're shtick is tired. Every Ranger player sucks when they play for New York but are then suddenly great when they leave. Let's see your past posts on Kakko/Lindgren.

Both Kakko and Lindgren are nothing players in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

How about Colton + Behrens

Maybe. We need a 3C almost as bad as a top 4 LHD. Has Colton been playing center?

 

[shadow1]

Jusso Parssinen is brutal.

How did this guy ever make the NHL?

0 SOG and points in 7 games for the Rangers. Totally useless.

Colorado shockingly traded a 3rd for Parssinen. He'd have a big game once in a blue moon, which led to a narrative that Bednar didn't like him/wasn't properly utilizing him. For my money, you didn't even notice him playing 80% of the time, even though he was on the Avalanche's poor excuse of a 2nd line (Drouin-Mittelstadt-Parssinen) for at least a dozen games.

 

[Richard88]

Maybe. We need a 3C almost as bad as a top 4 LHD. Has Colton been playing center?

He played center last season but this season he's mostly been on the wing, as you can see in his faceoff stats below.

Part of the reason for him playing more wing early in the season was that the Avs had so many injuries in their top 6 which necessitated moving him up to 2LW. Then halfway through the season they added Parssinen and gave him some looks at center, and more recently they added Drury and then Coyle so there hasn't been a reason to move him back to C.

He's decent at faceoffs with a career 51.3% on draws (almost 2,000 draws) and he's an ok 3C, but his game is better suited to playing on the wing where he can crash-bang more along the boards.

He;s playing good hockey now since the deadline, with 8 points in 8 games and leads the Avs in hits this season. He'll probably become available this offseason though as the Avs will have only $8.7m in capspace to re-sign Nelson, Drouin, Lindgren, Kiviranta, and Malinski, so they'll need to find money somewhere and $4m at 3LW seems the obvious choice other than moving Miles Wood.

What do Rangers fans think about Schneider? With Borgen getting his big contract does that mean that Schneider is capped out at a 3rd pairing role and possibly available for trade?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Colorado shockingly traded a 3rd for Parssinen. He'd have a big game once in a blue moon, which led to a narrative that Bednar didn't like him/wasn't properly utilizing him. For my money, you didn't even notice him playing 80% of the time, even though he was on the Avalanche's poor excuse of a 2nd line (Drouin-Mittelstadt-Parssinen) for at least a dozen games.

He’s moderately big and has decent hands, but slow, not physical, doesn’t shoot, average hockey sense, average defensive game. Doesn’t have the offense for top 9 or the grit/defense for fourth line. Good Euro leagues player, but not for the NHL.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

What do Rangers fans think about Schneider? With Borgen getting his big contract does that mean that Schneider is capped out at a 3rd pairing role and possibly available for trade?

Most of us like Schneider, except for the people who are advanced stats only in their analysis.

His analytics are kind of bad, but he’s almost always saddled with whoever is our 6D (and this is not a team with 6 NHL defensemen), so it’s kind of tough to judge him on that.

There’s nothing wrong with him. He’s just gotten put into a spot where there’s little opportunity to advance beyond our 5D (and really for any smart coach he would play less than 5D minutes because Fox should be taking minutes away from the 3rd pair RHD). Maybe it could’ve worked out that he takes 2RHD to start the season and we never trade for Borgen. Schneider earned it, but it didn’t work well with our pairs because Lindgren was injured, which kind of ruined everything. They stuck with the atrocious Miller-Trouba pairing mostly until Trouba got traded. Basically Trouba grifted off the injury to Lindgren in how the pairings were constructed, and when things blew up they traded Trouba, and then acquired Borgen very soon after.

Maybe Schneider could’ve taken the 2RHD to start when Borgen arrived, but he didn’t. I think most figured they’d kind of rotate for the rest of the season, maybe Borgen gets flipped at the deadline. It certainly wasn’t the biggest thing to worry about, as the team had way bigger problems. And then Borgen started playing great hockey. Has been our second best defensemen this season (and hasn’t even been here the whole season). His solid defense helped spring the team at the turn of the year. He kind of calmed down Miller’s pathetic play to start the season. Giving him an extension was something he earned.

It has put Schneider in a tough spot. Our first rounder from this past year is also a RHD, and RHD is never gonna be a big need for us, given we have Fox and can always just give him an extra five minutes, if it ever got bad with the other two, so it makes Schneider expendable (we also traded Mancini in the JT Miller trade, who looks like an NHL RHD). He’d probably do a perfectly fine job as a #4 right now.

 

[Richard88]

Most of us like Schneider, except for the people who are advanced stats only in their analysis.

His analytics are kind of bad, but he’s almost always saddled with whoever is our 6D (and this is not a team with 6 NHL defensemen), so it’s kind of tough to judge him on that.

There’s nothing wrong with him. He’s just gotten put into a spot where there’s little opportunity to advance beyond our 5D (and really for any smart coach he would play less than 5D minutes because Fox should be taking minutes away from the 3rd pair RHD). Maybe it could’ve worked out that he takes 2RHD to start the season and we never trade for Borgen. Schneider earned it, but it didn’t work well with our pairs because Lindgren was injured, which kind of ruined everything. They stuck with the atrocious Miller-Trouba pairing mostly until Trouba got traded. Basically Trouba grifted off the injury to Lindgren in how the pairings were constructed, and when things blew up they traded Trouba, and then acquired Borgen very soon after.

Maybe Schneider could’ve taken the 2RHD to start when Borgen arrived, but he didn’t. I think most figured they’d kind of rotate for the rest of the season, maybe Borgen gets flipped at the deadline. It certainly wasn’t the biggest thing to worry about, as the team had way bigger problems. And then Borgen started playing great hockey. Has been our second best defensemen this season (and hasn’t even been here the whole season). His solid defense helped spring the team at the turn of the year. He kind of calmed down Miller’s pathetic play to start the season. Giving him an extension was something he earned.

It has put Schneider in a tough spot. Our first rounder from this past year is also a RHD, and RHD is never gonna be a big need for us, given we have Fox and can always just give him an extra five minutes, if it ever got bad with the other two, so it makes Schneider expendable (we also traded Mancini in the JT Miller trade, who looks like an NHL RHD). He’d probably do a perfectly fine job as a #4 right now.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

The Avs are going to need a replacement for Manson soon, since he's one year from UFA, 34, and has only played in ~60% of games the last few seasons due to injuries. Schneider would obviously be a stylistic fit for that role, so I'd imagine that the Avs would be interested if he's available.

What are NYR's biggest needs? Am I right in thinking LHD, then 3C, then 3rd line forwards are the needs in order of priority?

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Maybe. We need a 3C almost as bad as a top 4 LHD. Has Colton been playing center?

He looked so so at center here, but has looked rejuvenated playing wing with Coyle at center

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Jusso Parssinen is brutal.

How did this guy ever make the NHL?

0 SOG and points in 7 games for the Rangers. Totally useless.

I wonder what happened to Parssinen... he was legitimately very good for the Predators. So much so that in his first year we were starting to wonder if he might become a decent 2C for us.

He has had some bad injury issues in the past, however, so I don't know if anything has been re-aggravated on that front, or if he is just sort of dejected about how this season has gone for him, bouncing around after the abysmal Andrew Brunette sidelined him?

Anyway, hopefully he rediscovers whatever it is that's missing, because he certainly was not brutal prior to this season.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

The Avs are going to need a replacement for Manson soon, since he's one year from UFA, 34, and has only played in ~60% of games the last few seasons due to injuries. Schneider would obviously be a stylistic fit for that role, so I'd imagine that the Avs would be interested if he's available.

What are NYR's biggest needs? Am I right in thinking LHD, then 3C, then 3rd line forwards are the needs in order of priority?

Top 4 LHD (we need two of them) and 3C. I guess theoretically any type of good player could help as we're not that good of a team, but those are our two big weaknesses with needed player personnel upgrades.

 

[mattihp]

I wonder what happened to Parssinen... he was legitimately very good for the Predators. So much so that in his first year we were starting to wonder if he might become a decent 2C for us.

He has had some bad injury issues in the past, however, so I don't know if anything has been re-aggravated on that front, or if he is just sort of dejected about how this season has gone for him, bouncing around after the abysmal Andrew Brunette sidelined him?

Anyway, hopefully he rediscovers whatever it is that's missing, because he certainly was not brutal prior to this season.

Confidence issues seem very common among Finnish forwards. And the odd ways preds play their players probably doesn't help

 

[JoeSakic13]

Confidence issues seem very common among Finnish forwards. And the odd ways preds play their players probably doesn't help

I don’t think that confidence issues are specific to a nation. MacKinnon had confidence issues right up until getting a sports psychologist.

 

[S E P H]

I wonder what happened to Parssinen... he was legitimately very good for the Predators. So much so that in his first year we were starting to wonder if he might become a decent 2C for us.

He has had some bad injury issues in the past, however, so I don't know if anything has been re-aggravated on that front, or if he is just sort of dejected about how this season has gone for him, bouncing around after the abysmal Andrew Brunette sidelined him?

Anyway, hopefully he rediscovers whatever it is that's missing, because he certainly was not brutal prior to this season.

Parssinen was good on the Avs, it's just that Bednar hated him for some reason and never gave him a fair shot.

 

[RickyLafleur]

I wish this bonehead would get fired. Worst GM in NHL history

Pierre Dorion and Mike Milbury would like a word.

 

[mattihp]

I don’t think that confidence issues are specific to a nation. MacKinnon had confidence issues right up until getting a sports psychologist.

Are you sure? As a Finn it does look like so many of our forwards have them

 

[JoeSakic13]

Are you sure? As a Finn it does look like so many of our forwards have them

Are you gatekeeping confidence issues?

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I wonder what happened to Parssinen... he was legitimately very good for the Predators. So much so that in his first year we were starting to wonder if he might become a decent 2C for us.

He has had some bad injury issues in the past, however, so I don't know if anything has been re-aggravated on that front, or if he is just sort of dejected about how this season has gone for him, bouncing around after the abysmal Andrew Brunette sidelined him?

Anyway, hopefully he rediscovers whatever it is that's missing, because he certainly was not brutal prior to this season.

Did losing the mentorship of Ryan Johansen have a negative impact on this guy? Johansen is a big body who's a bit slower skating. Relies on slick hands and a top tier hockey sense and motor.

Perhaps Parssinen lost a player he can look up to.