Calgary Flames leading possibility Zayne Parekh remains to accumulate factors … and remains to crank up the exhilaration regarding what his NHL future might hold.
Parekh struck the 100-point plateau Thursday, ending up being simply the 10th defenceman in Ontario Hockey League background– and just the 2nd in the 2000s– to strike three-way figures in a period.
The last to do so was Ryan Ellis in 2009-10.
It’s the 2nd significant achievement for Parekh in much less than a week. He just recently signed up with Bobby Orr as just the 2nd blue-liner in OHL/OHA tradition with numerous 30-goal projects.
Yeah, that Bobby Orr
Parekh, that was chosen by the Flames with the ninth-overall choice in the 2024 NHL Draft, is currently as much as 32 objectives and 68 aids in 57 trips this winter season with theSaginaw Spirit It remains to be a head-scratcher that he was ended Team Canada’s lineup for the globe junior event and it’s not unlikely to believe he will certainly be a full-timer with the Flames in the autumn.
As Parekh soared towards 100 factors, the 19-year-old star-in-the-making confessed the 100-point landmark got on his radar. He accumulated 96 factors as a draft-eligible en path to winning the CHL’s Defenceman of the Year honor.
“It would pretty special,” Parekh claimed last month throughout a meeting on Flames Talk on Sportsnet 960The Fan “As selfish as it sounds, it’s something that was on my mind last year. Not so much this year, where I haven’t really thought about it, but last year I really wanted to hit that 100-point mark. This year, I’m just naturally letting it come and not forcing anything.
“But if it does end up happening, I think it will pretty cool.”
The Spirit have 6 regular-season days continuing to be. At his existing clip, that places Parekh on rate for 110 factors.
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