{"id":248561,"date":"2025-09-23T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:22:10","slug":"rangers-plans-to-give-juuso-parssinen-chance-to-solve-third-line-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248561\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers plans to give Juuso Parssinen chance to solve third-line problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers have struggled to construct a third line with any sort of identity for quite some time, but new head coach Mike Sullivan has a clear idea of what he wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of Mika Zibanejad starting the season on the right wing of J.T. Miller in the top six, the Blueshirts need someone to assume the third-line center role and anchor a dependable unit that can hold its own on both sides of the puck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said he envisions Juuso Parssinen to get a \u201csignificant\u201d opportunity to win the job after the 24-year-old Finn <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/02\/sports\/rangers-nearing-extension-with-juuso-parssinen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a two-year contract<\/a> with the Rangers this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the third line has the ability to create an identity amongst our team where we can rely on that line for conscientious play,\u201d the new bench boss said at the start of training camp. \u201cAnd what I mean by that is, can they get defensive zone starts against another team\u2019s top line? If they lose the draw, can they be reliable and trustworthy to defend hard and limit our opponent\u2019s offense? Do they have the ability to drive the puck down the ice and create momentum and control territory for us so that we could potentially set up our offensive guys for success in the offensive zone?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers have struggled to construct a third line with any sort of identity for quite some time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[66396,1302,293,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-248561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115252883833742611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}