RD Zayne Parekh - Saginaw Spirit, OHL (2024, 9th, CGY)

[Finster8]

Personally I don’t see color just one amazing RD who possess an off the charts amount of natural talent even if he is was green with 3 eyes.
This young man is literally rewriting the record books. He seems to gelling with Misa, Epperson, Chernyshov and underrated Mangone. 4 assists not selfish distributing the puck and makes it look easy what a treat watching these guys night in night out. Personally I can see him being a leader on any team he ends up with down the road.
He has had issues on the ice doing stupid shit but if he is learning from his mistakes that speaks for itself.
If he can put on 10lbs in the off season and really concentrate on improving his defensive side of the game I would not write him off from making Calgary next season. He is just to good not to put him in the lineup if things fall into place. Another year in Saginaw would be redundant.

 

[Lunatik]

It's not middle-eastern...

But the poster you're responding to definitely doesn't know that either. He'd be offended we even mention that people can be different.

Sorry, I was under the impression that India was considered to part of the middle east, I was wrong.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Sorry, I was under the impression that India was considered to part of the middle east, I was wrong.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

It's not middle-eastern...

But the poster you're responding to definitely doesn't know that either. He'd be offended we even mention that people can be different.

this is the guy who defended mitchell miller lol. there should be a feature that lets a poster still post but makes their posts invisible to everyone else, without them knowing about it. that would be perfect for him

 

[jtechkid]

Parekh with 3A in a 5-1 victory over NB. 83 pts with 13 games left to achieve that elusive 100 pt mark for a defenseman.
GP-50 G-27 A-56 Pt-83 +37 currently 7th in the OHL in points.

That’s the argument he would have been 10 x better heading to play college against big and heavy teams verse dominating in the ohl. Their is no doubt nhl teams see this and you will see most kids like him head to ncaa for 1-2 years. in future .. He couldn’t play like that at ncaa , Ahl , or the nhl so wasting another year playing pickup hockey in ohl doesn’t really help him . Remember he couldn’t make junior team and Canada junior kids have done zero against heavy structure usa college kids . Look at Dickinson who is ripping up the OHL he had zero room or space at World juniors and looked flat out bad .

 

[Kingpin794]

That’s the argument he would have been 10 x better heading to play college against big and heavy teams verse dominating in the ohl. Their is no doubt nhl teams see this and you will see most kids like him head to ncaa for 1-2 years. in future .. He couldn’t play like that at ncaa , Ahl , or the nhl so wasting another year playing pickup hockey in ohl doesn’t really help him . Remember he couldn’t make junior team and Canada junior kids have done zero against heavy structure usa college kids . Look at Dickinson who is ripping up the OHL he had zero room or space at World juniors and looked flat out bad .

For high end players, it really doesn't matter whether they play CHL or NCAA. Its just personal preference for them. Playing an extra year of CHL isn't going to stunt you and playing a year of NCAA isn't going to accelerate your development. They are going to be what they are going to be by the time they are 24/25 or so.

it's waaaaay more important what NHL org they are with. Is the coaching good there? Do they have support there? Are they allowed to play their game or are they getting pigeon holed into an assignment? Are they buried in the line up? Are they being rushed? All of those are far more important than where someone is playing a single 19 year old season.

Edit: And can we please stop acting like the OHL is just timbits hockey while we type these things from our couches? I'm not going around calling the NCAA a league full of AARP members.

 

[Rythashocka]

Ever since the World Juniors snub he has exploded offensively. Even the great (not) Dickenson is no where close to Zayne's production when everyone was gushing about how awesome a year Dickenson is having (on a loaded London team). Zayne's PPG is up to 1.70 on the year after being around 1.05 for the first 11 games of the year.

I'm glad Zayne plays with a chip on his shoulder to prove all the dumb haters wrong.

Also, Parekh's name is of Indian descent (his Father is Indian, Mother is Korean descent so it's a double whammy for the racists out there).

To be fair his production sky rocketed even more when chernyshov showed up (31 points in those 14 games). Between having Igor and misa it certainly doesn't hurt whereas Dickinson has no one even close to the talent of those 2.

Zaynes been great but that stuff does matter.

 

[covfefe]

That’s the argument he would have been 10 x better heading to play college against big and heavy teams verse dominating in the ohl. Their is no doubt nhl teams see this and you will see most kids like him head to ncaa for 1-2 years. in future .. He couldn’t play like that at ncaa , Ahl , or the nhl so wasting another year playing pickup hockey in ohl doesn’t really help him . Remember he couldn’t make junior team and Canada junior kids have done zero against heavy structure usa college kids . Look at Dickinson who is ripping up the OHL he had zero room or space at World juniors and looked flat out bad .

 

[Kingpin794]

To be fair his production sky rocketed even more when chernyshov showed up (31 points in those 14 games). Between having Igor and misa it certainly doesn't hurt whereas Dickinson has no one even close to the talent of those 2.

Zaynes been great but that stuff does matter.

There are like 5 first rounders and 13 NHL picks on London. I think he has plenty to work with. Dickinson is a different player. No one is expecting him to match Parekh’s offensive numbers.

 

[kanersen]

Why do white people always have a need to take negative connotations against people of visible minority, into a need to identify that as some sort of racial conflict or perceived racism. For the record, I am a big Parekh fan and I'm of Indian descent. I can still understand people not liking Parekh's toolkit and holding that against them without an iota of consideration to his race. Lane Hutson had the same doubters. Can we just stick to hockey please. There's enough crap going on in the world that I don't need to have it shoved in my face here too.