Zach Parise Quotations

I think it's exciting for all the young guys to be able to skate with them to have the opportunity to make the big club. I think last year we had a different kind of training camp and we're real eager to be out there with these guys.

I was working out and I was already done for two weeks. It was a great experience playing with all those guys and then at the Olympic trials, playing on the ice with those guys, they're the best in the country.

It is an important win for us, especially coming from behind like that. These two points are just as important at the end of the season. This is a big win for us.

I think everyone's out here trying to prove something. I'm not necessarily saying 'I belong here,' but I just want to put my best foot forward and play to my strengths and do what I do well out there and see how things unfold.

Robbie was great and put me in a lot of situations, a lot of power play and a lot of penalty kill. Any time you can get a year of pro experience under your belt is great. Coming right of college I needed to adjust to the pro game from college and that season was great for me.

Regardless of what the players think about it, it's the way it's going to be, so you might as well enjoy it.

I still get nervous, I still get nervous playing. But it's good to be a little excited, a little anxious for everything. We're going to be switching groups up a little bit so we get to get on the ice with a lot of those NHL guys.

I wasn't trying to go make a point at all, ... I was trying to do what I can do. He played well. He played really well. I'm not trying to draw any comparisons.

We can't seem to buy one right now.

We kind of saw some video before the game. (We saw) some things we can take advantage of.

You've got to win. Especially a game against Philadelphia. You're looking at the standings and you want to climb. That's our main concern right now is winning our own games.

The way we've been playing, we've been playing well against quality teams. From here on out, we've got to do that every night.

They tried to rim the puck out of the zone and Sergei made a good play. He found me streaking to the backside. I just tried to lift it over his pad.

It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of playing with them. I know I have to be at the top of my game every night - I don't want to be the weak link.

That just shows how far along we've come and our ability, the way that we can play. We're a completely different team than from the beginning of the year.

It's so much fun in the locker room. Guys enjoy coming to the rink and we're showing it on the ice. Everything is coming together for us.

It was more of a blur than anything, ... I just had a couple whacks at it and when it went in it was just excitement. It was an unbelievable feeling.

I loved Robbie down there. He was good for me. He was a good skill coach.

I knew the team was counting on me to take it to the next step. I had to elevate my game. And I know I did that.

I'm happy with the way I'm playing, ... I'm out there with some very talented players and I'm trying my best to fit in.

I'm approaching like all the other guys - I want to make the team. There's obviously extra incentive there that wasn't there last year. But we're all here for a reason and that's to make the team.

You want to get the first one out of the way, ... It's awesome. It was kind of a blur, but it's also a weight off your shoulders.

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

Every year, I just want to do better than I did the year before.