Juuso Parssinen
New York Rangers Center
Three clubs in one season at 24, and a 6-3 centre who takes half his shots from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | NSH | 45 | 6 | 19 | 25 | -1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 49 | 12.2 | 14:20 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 44 | 8 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 14.8 | 14:36 |
| 2024-25 | NSH/COL/NYR | 48 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 20.0 | 10:32 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 137 | 20 | 33 | 53 | -12 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 133 | 15.0 | 13:05 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
6 goals and 10 assists in 48 games across Nashville, Colorado and New York — 16 points, minus-5, at 10:32 a night.
42.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 7th percentile, across 448 minutes. Three organisations in one year at 24 is the fact that matters more than the rate; he was moved twice and neither club asked for him back.
The Finesse Game
The passing is the better half and it always has been — 19 assists as a rookie in Nashville is still the high-water mark, and 33 assists in 137 career games is a genuine rate for a fourth-line centre.
53 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 18, which is the right idea, and 30 attempts in 48 games says he does not generate them for himself. 6 goals at 20 per cent is a small number arriving on a very small sample.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 207 and he is not using it. He goes to the net and he is moved off it, he will take the body on a forecheck without hurting anybody, and 19 penalty minutes in 48 games is an ordinary rate.
The skating is adequate for the size and no better, and against NHL pressure the puck comes off him. That is most of what separates a fourth-line centre from a third-line one and it is the specific thing he has not fixed in three seasons.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick who reached the NHL at 21 and produced immediately, then went backwards for two years.
He is 24, he is cheap, he is large, and he can pass. That combination is worth a training camp on any roster and it is why the club took him in a deadline deal it made for other reasons. Whether he is a fourth-line centre or an American Leaguer is genuinely open.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 448 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.8%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 21st pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 11 against. Expected: 13.4 and 18.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 496 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with COL · 204 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.8% — 4.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 448 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casey Mittelstadt | 48.6% | 40.8% | 45.8% |
| Luke Schenn | 43.0% | 42.7% | 50.2% |
| Luke Evangelista | 45.8% | 42.2% | 52.6% |
48.6% together, 40.8% for him apart and 45.8% for Mittelstadt apart. He was worse away from Mittelstadt, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Mittelstadt did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
45 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.