alt="LA Kings Insider with Rich Hammond" />Scott Parse is almost certain to make his NHL debut tomorrow night, on a line with Jarret Stoll and Teddy Purcell. It’s been quite a journey for Parse, who was drafted by the Kings in the sixth round in 2004 after his freshman season at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In his first full pro season, in 2007-08, Parse dropped to the ECHL for part of the season. Last season, he played the entire year in Manchester and had 15 goals and 24 assists in 74 games. This season, Parse had team highs of nine assists and 11 points for the Monarchs, mostly on a line with Andrei Loktionov and Oscar Moller…
Question: When did you get the call?
PARSE: “Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o’clock Eastern time. … My plane left at 7:30 in Boston, so I had to leave about 5 o’clock from Manchester.”
Question: How were things going down there? The numbers looked good…
PARSE: “It was fun. We were off to a good start, so that always makes it fun, to come to the rink and win. And personally, I was off to a good start.”
Question: Have they talked to you about what your role might be?
PARSE: “No, not yet. I just showed up and went to practice.”
Question: Do you have any expectations for yourself?
PARSE: “Just do what I can. Help the team win and work hard and see what happens. … I was skating with Teddy and Stolly today, so hopefully if we get a chance to score and make plays, we can do it.”
Question: Terry mentioned that you didn’t get in a preseason game, and he thought you might have been a little motivated by that and wanted to show something…
PARSE: “Well, it was disappointing not to play in a preseason game, but I just went down there and worked hard, and I got called up here.”
I’m excited to see Parse in action! Been hearing about him for so long without ever seeing any more than a rookie game or training camp drills from him.
Off topic: What do you Chris Pronger, Karlis Skrastins and Stephae Robidas have in common?
Click here to find out: http://lakingsnews.com/2009/10/23/video-anze-kopitar/
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Is Parse a physical player or is he soft like purcell?
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Not sure Khanon, I just hope he does more to help the Kings get wins than Raitis or for that matter Westgarth or Clune would…
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@Jacob
Without having to look at the link, I can only assume that it’s a list of players he torched by dragging the puck down low. Seeing the first goal last night in person was an extreme deja vu. It was about exactly the same as his first NHL goal.
Back to the topic, I haven’t heard much about Parse. With Lewis, Purcell, and Moller, he’s been very silent to me. Not playing in any preseason games this year, I don’t know much about him. But it sounds like he has a good attitude and sounds determined to kick Lewis off the team.
Hopefully Parse being recalled also makes Lewis step his game up a couple notches.
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I should point out that the link is to a video, not an article.
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If Williams is in the lineup, Lewis is in Manch…
and I think he knows it.
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Does that mean Lotki gets the call next?
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Khanon,
Parse is skilled like Purcell. He is smaller however…
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SJ Great video. And he is only 22.
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Khanon -
On the physicality scale, if Scott Stevens is a 10, and Wayne Gretzky is a 1, I’ll put Purcell at 4 and Parse at 5, maybe 5.5. He would be a 6 but for the fact that he’s now listed at 5′11″ and he used to be listed at 6′, and that pisses me off.
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LOL @ Quisp.
Better pissed off than pissed on.
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Quisp what would you rate malkin on your scale? What would you rate the Sedins? What would you rate kopitar, Wolski Statsny, Taveres,?
They aren’t physical players so what is your pt?
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