J. P. Parisé

J. P. Parisé
Born December 11, 1941 (1941-12-11) (age 70)
Smooth Rock Falls, ON, CAN
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Left Wing
Shot Left
Played for NHL
Boston Bruins
Minnesota North Stars
Toronto Maple Leafs
New York Islanders
Cleveland Barons
AHL
Rochester Americans
National team  Canada
Playing career 1963–1979

Jean-Paul Joseph-Louis "Jeep" Parisé (born December 11, 1941) is a retired professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Minnesota North Stars and the New York Islanders.

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Playing career

Juniors and minor leagues

Signed by the Boston Bruins as a teenager, Parisé was assigned in 1961–62 NHL season to the Bruins' junior league club, the Niagara Falls Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association, where he played for former NHL player and future Bruins general manager Hap Emms. While he was not a promising scorer in juniors, he learned to play a diligent two-way game and became noted as a skilled penalty killer. He turned pro the following season and, in the days of the Original Six when big league jobs were few, spent most of the next five seasons in the Bruins' farm system. He started to find his scoring touch in 1964 with the Minneapolis Bruins of the Central Professional Hockey League, scoring 63 points in 72 games, and was named a Second Team league All-Star with the Bruins' Oklahoma City Blazers affiliate in 1966.

Boston Bruins

He made his NHL debut the same season with the Boston Bruins, playing limited action in three games, followed by eighteen games the next season.

Minnesota North Stars

The following season saw expansion, and Parisé was drafted by the Oakland Seals. He was promptly traded to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, playing three for the Amerks (save for a single game with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Rochester's parent club) before being dealt again, this time to the Minnesota North Stars.

Returning to the site of his first professional success and playing on a line with centre Jude Drouin and high scoring right winger Bill Goldsworthy, Parisé finally became a star, playing six seasons and parts of two others in Minnesota. He was named twice to play in the NHL All-Star Game, and had his best professional campaign in the 1972–73 season, when he scored 27 goals and 75 points.

Team Canada

The degree to which Parisé was held in respect in the hockey world resulted in being named to play for Team Canada in the Summit Series in 1972. He was a surprise pick to the team and didn't expect to see much ice time, but ended up playing in six of the eight games.[1] He played on a line with superstar Phil Esposito and scored two goals and two assists.

Parisé was best known in the series for nearly attacking unpopular referee Josef Kompalla, who handed out a series of questionable penalties against the Canadians, with his stick in the 8th game. Parisé held back at the last minute from striking Kompalla and was ejected from the game in consequence. As a silver lining, the officiating of the game improved considerably after Parisé's threat, so it helped give his teammates a chance to get back in the game.[2]

New York Islanders

At age 34, the North Stars felt that Parisé was aging, and dealt him to the New York Islanders midway through the 1975 season. He confounded all doubts, however, being one of the key players to not only lead the Islanders to their first playoff berth that season but all the way to the Stanley Cup semifinals, where the Isles lost in a hard fought seven game series to the eventual Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers; Parisé scored 16 points in 17 playoff games that year, second on the Isles only to Drouin, who had been acquired in a separate deal with Minnesota that season. Parisé played two and a half more seasons on Long Island, adding over 20 goals each of his full seasons and providing excellent defensive play.

Cleveland and Minnesota

Halfway through the 1978 season, Parisé was traded one final time to the Cleveland Barons. The following year, with the demise of the Barons and their merger with Minnesota, his rights were assigned once more to the North Stars, where he played his final season before retirement, serving as the North Stars' team captain.

In total, Parisé played 890 games in the NHL, scoring 238 goals and 356 assists for 594 points, adding 706 penalty minutes. He also had 27 goals and 31 assists in 86 playoff games.

Post-playing career

After his retirement, he served as a coach in the North Stars' organization, as assistant coach between 1980 and 1988, except for the 1984 season, when he was the head coach for Minnesota's minor league affiliate, the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Central Hockey League; he recorded a 35-35-2 mark as coach. Thereafter Parisé retired to Minnesota where he coached and was hockey director at Shattuck-Saint Mary's, where his son Zach Parise, Sidney Crosby, Jack Johnson and Jonathan Toews played.

On April 23, 2008, Parisé was named the head coach and general manager of the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League.

Achievements and facts

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1961–62 Niagara Falls Flyers OHA 38 8 20 28 0 — — — — —
1961–62 Kingston Frontenacs EPHL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
1962–63 Kingston Frontenacs EPHL 64 11 17 28 64 5 0 0 0 6
1963–64 Minneapolis Bruins CPHL 72 27 36 63 77 5 1 2 3 10
1964–65 Minneapolis Bruins CPHL 70 17 56 73 106 5 5 1 6 0
1965–66 Boston Bruins NHL 3 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
1965–66 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 69 19 30 49 137 7 6 3 9 2
1966–67 Boston Bruins NHL 18 2 2 4 10 — — — — —
1966–67 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 42 11 22 33 98 11 1 9 10 32
1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 1 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
1967–68 Rochester Americans AHL 30 10 18 28 37 — — — — —
1967–68 Minnesota North Stars NHL 43 11 16 27 27 14 2 5 7 10
1968–69 Minnesota North Stars NHL 76 22 27 49 57 — — — — —
1969–70 Minnesota North Stars NHL 74 24 48 72 72 6 3 2 5 2
1970–71 Minnesota North Stars NHL 73 11 23 34 60 12 3 3 6 22
1971–72 Minnesota North Stars NHL 71 19 18 37 70 7 3 3 6 6
1972–73 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 27 48 75 96 6 0 0 0 9
1973–74 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 18 37 55 42 — — — — —
1974–75 Minnesota North Stars NHL 38 9 16 25 40 — — — — —
1974–75 New York Islanders NHL 41 14 16 30 22 17 8 8 16 22
1975–76 New York Islanders NHL 80 22 35 57 80 13 4 6 10 10
1976–77 New York Islanders NHL 80 25 31 56 46 11 4 4 8 6
1977–78 New York Islanders NHL 39 12 16 28 12 — — — — —
1977–78 Cleveland Barons NHL 40 9 13 22 27 — — — — —
1978–79 Minnesota North Stars NHL 57 13 9 22 45 — — — — —
NHL totals 890 238 356 594 706 86 27 31 58 87

References

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Preceded by
Nick Beverley		 Minnesota North Stars captain
1978–79		 Succeeded by
Paul Shmyr