{"id":313733,"date":"2025-11-26T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313733\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:08:10","slug":"rangers-place-juuso-parssinen-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313733\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Place Juuso P\u00e4rssinen On Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rangers have placed forward\u00a0Juuso P\u00e4rssinen<\/a> on waivers, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll be assigned to AHL Hartford if he clears. Vince Z. Mercogliano of The Athletic<\/a> implied today\u2019s waiver placement is a substitute for a lack of suitable trade options, so it\u2019s more about hopefully finding P\u00e4rssinen a change of scenery via a claim than a demotion to the minors.<\/p>\n

P\u00e4rssinen has fallen out of a regular role for the Blueshirts, serving as a healthy scratch in six of the last eight games. He\u2019d suited up in 11 straight before that, so that\u2019s a notable reduction in usage. When dressed, the 24-year-old pivot has managed two goals and an assist in 14 appearances but has averaged just 8:56 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

The Rangers added P\u00e4rssinen via trade last season, picking him up from the Avalanche in the\u00a0Ryan Lindgren<\/a>\u00a0deal in March. He played a modest role down the stretch, but after inking a two-year, $2.5MM extension in May, it looked like the 6\u20193\u2033 Finn would get a crack at serving as New York\u2019s third-line center from opening night onward. Instead, he wasn\u2019t even in the lineup. A strong training camp from rookie\u00a0Noah Laba<\/a>\u00a0bumped him from the slot, and instead, he\u2019s been used as more of a 13th forward.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the role P\u00e4rssinen hoped for at this stage of his career. A seventh-round pick by the Predators in 2019, he burst onto the scene with six goals and 25 points in 45 games for Nashville in 2022-23 \u2013 a 46-point pace over 82 games. Since then, however, he\u2019s produced at about half that rate and is now potentially on his way to his fourth team in as many seasons.<\/p>\n

While most teams wouldn\u2019t have many qualms about picking up someone with P\u00e4rssinen\u2019s offensive ceiling at a $1.25MM cap hit, the fact that he\u2019s signed through next season \u2013 and he\u2019s paid more in salary ($1.3MM) than what he\u2019ll count against the books in 2026-27 \u2013 likely limits his interest and was why they couldn\u2019t find any takers on the trade market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers have placed forward\u00a0Juuso P\u00e4rssinen on waivers, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet. It\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[161593,4823,385,99,6182,9818],"class_list":["post-313733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-juuso-parssinen","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}