2025 Rangers Report Card: Juuso Parssinen

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers Report Cards, grading the performance of each member of the 2024-25 New York Rangers. To view more report cards in this series, go here.

Expectations

I have to imagine that expectations for Juuso Parssinen were pretty non-existent. In fact, I would be wholly impressed if more than ten people reading this even knew who Juuso Parssinen was when the season started.

Parssinen began the season as a member of the Nashville Predators before being sent to the Colorado Avalanche in December along with a 7th round pick for a 3rd round pick and minor league forward Ondrej Pavel. The Rangers acquired the 24-year old Finn as part of the deal that saw Ryan Lindgren’s tenure in New York come to an end. As a rookie in 2022-23, the big (6-3, 215 pounds) centerman had opened some eyes, recording 20 points for the Predators in their final 29 games. He failed to capitalize on that the following season and spent much of 2023-24 bouncing between Nashville and their AHL affiliate in Milwaukee. After being traded to Colorado he spent time in their top six, bottom six, and the press box, averaging about 9:45 of ice time and only registering six points in 22 games.

Performance

Season Total: 48 GP, 6 G, 10 A (NYR Total: 11 GP, 2 G, 3 A)

When the trade to New York was announced, it was revealed that Parssinen was a player that the Rangers had been interested in acquiring for some time. As such, it stood to reason that he would get some run as a Center in the Rangers bottom six.

Yeah, no. 

Parssinen played for four games after being acquired, then sat for six games, played for four games, and then sat until playing in three of the team’s final four games of the season. All told he played just over 100 minutes for the Rangers this year, with most of his time coming on the wing. All his points for the Rangers came in his final three games, registering a goal and an assist against the Islanders and a goal and two assists against the Panthers before sitting as a healthy scratch against the Lightning to close out the year. Whatever, Peter Laviolette sucks.

Author Grade: Incomplete

Banter Consensus: C-

Final Evaluation
J̶u̶i̶c̶y̶ P̶a̶r̶s̶n̶i̶p̶s̶ Juuso Parssinen is a restricted free agent with arbitration rights. Given that the Rangers interest in him goes back to his days with Nashville I would think he’ll receive a qualifying offer and be re-signed. If so, it would stand to reason that he will have an opportunity to battle Sam Carrick, Matt Rempe, Adam Edstrom, Brett Berard, Jonny Brodzinski, Arthur Kaliyev, and any number of other people for some fourth line minutes. He plays a fairly physical game (86 hits in 48 games) and has decent possession numbers, that—coupled with his size and youth relative to Carrick and Brodzinski—make him an interesting player to watch. Depending on who is hired as the coach and what direction the Rangers decide to take things this summer, could lead to a bigger role (or a role) for Parssinen next year.