May 2024 - Colorado Avalanche Wiretap
Zach Parise is back. And this time it will be with the Colorado Avalanche as the club announced Friday the signing of the 39-year-old winger for the rest of the season.
Parise, who spent the past two years with the New York Islanders, has been without a club since the start of the season. He finished with 21 goals and 13 assists in 82 games in 2022-23, the 11th season of his career of 20 or more goals.
The NHL revealed some famous names set to captain its All-Star Game weekend festivities in Toronto next month, from the players themselves to some well-known personas.
Saturday night's announcement unveiled members of all four teams, each with an NHL player captain, co-captain, celebrity captain and designated jersey color, that will draft from the pool of previously selected All-Stars on Feb. 1. Those groupings will then last throughout the skills competition on Feb. 2 and play together during the All-Star Game on Feb. 3.
Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has entered the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program and will be away from the team for an indefinite amount of time.
The league and union announced Monday that Nichushkin will return to the Avalanche once he's cleared by program administrators. No other information was provided.
William Nylander, Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly from the Toronto Maple Leafs were selected for the NHL All-Star Game on Saturday through the results of a fan vote.
The Vancouver Canucks had four players voted into the Feb. 3 game in Toronto: goaltender Thatcher Demko, and forwards Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser. Demko received the most votes with 1,398,699, followed by Nylander (1,393,578), Colorado defenseman Cale Makar (1,065,367) and Pettersson (976,716).
Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl, Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, Avalanche goaltender Alexandar Georgiev and Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman also made it into the showcase event through the fan vote.
The NHL said more than 36 million votes were cast over eight days, setting a record.
