Jean-Paul Parise

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Jean-Paul Parise (born 11 December 1941 in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the NHL.

Parise played for a number of different teams in his NHL career, but the bulk of his career was played with the Minnesota North Stars. Parise was also an important member of the early New York Islanders teams in the mid 1970s, and he is warmly remembered by many Islander fans for scoring the goal 11 seconds into overtime to defeat their cross-town rivals, the New York Rangers, in game three of the best of three opening playoff series following the 1974–75 campaign. Some fans trace the origin of the historically intense rivalry between the Islanders and Rangers to that moment. In total, Parise played 890 games in the NHL, scoring 238 goals and 356 assists for 594 points. His best season statistically was the 1972–73 season, when he scored 27 goals and 75 points.

Parise played in the Summit Series in 1972 and attacked unpopular referee Josef Kompalla with his stick in the final game, holding back at the last minute from actually striking him.

Parise's sons Zach and Jordan are current NHL players with the New Jersey Devils organization.

On April 23, 2008, Parise was named the head coach and general manager of the Des Moines Buccaneers of the USHL.

[edit] External links

• Jean-Paul Parise's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Preceded by Nick Beverley

Minnesota North Stars captains 1978–79

Succeeded by Paul Shmyr