This move isn't surprising, considering that Zach Parise opined to The Athletic a few days ago about how dissatisfied he was with the direction Fenton and the Wild were taking:
https://theathletic.com/1099792/2019...nt-and-future/
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This will be Parise’s 15th season, and he has voiced these concerns about his future and that of the team a number of times to GM Paul Fenton. He has also talked with owner Craig Leipold in an attempt to reiterate just how much his ambition is to win a Stanley Cup, preferably here in Minnesota.
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“But you get to that point where you want to win. That’s all you want to do. Trust me, we’d all love to win here. I think this place would be absolute insanity if we won here. So that’s the goal. I mean, I just don’t know. Let’s put it this way, they haven’t come to me asking if I want to get traded somewhere.
“We love everything about Minnesota. It’s just the hockey part lately has been difficult.”
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