J . P . Parisé Jean - Paul Parisé ( born December 11 , 1941 , in Smooth Rock Falls , Ontario , Canada ) is a retired professional left winger who played in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) , most notably for the Minnesota North Stars and the New York Islanders . Playing career . Juniors and minor leagues . Signed by the Boston Bruins as a teenager , Parisé was assigned in 1961 – 62 NHL season to the Bruins ' junior league club , the Niagara Falls Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association , where he played for former NHL player and future Bruins general manager Hap Emms . While he was not a promising scorer in juniors , he learned to play a diligent two - way game and became noted as a skilled penalty killer . He turned pro the following season and , in the days of the Original Six when big league jobs were few , spent most of the next five seasons in the Bruins ' farm system . He started to find his scoring touch in 1964 with the Minneapolis Bruins of the Central Professional Hockey League , scoring 63 points in 72 games , and was named a Second Team league All - Star with the Bruins ' Oklahoma City Blazers affiliate in 1966 . He made his NHL debut the same season , playing in limited action in three games , followed by eighteen games in Boston the next season . NHL career . The following season saw expansion , and Parisé was drafted by the Oakland Seals . He was promptly traded to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League , playing three for the Amerks ( save for a single game with the Toronto Maple Leafs , Rochester ' s parent club ) before being dealt again , this time to the Minnesota North Stars . Returning to the site of his first professional success and playing on a line with centre Jude Drouin and high scoring right winger Bill Goldsworthy , Parisé finally became a star , playing six seasons and parts of two others in Minnesota . He was named twice to play in the NHL All - Star Game , and had his best professional campaign in the 1972 – 73 season , when he scored 27 goals and 75 points . The degree to which he was held in respect in the hockey world resulted in being named to play for Team Canada in the Summit Series in 1972 . While during the series he played on a line with superstar Phil Esposito and scored two goals and two assists in six games , he was best known in the series for nearly attacking unpopular referee Josef Kompalla with his stick in the 8th game , holding back at the last minute from striking him and being ejected from the game in consequence . At age 34 , the North Stars felt that Parisé was aging , and dealt him to the New York Islanders midway through the 1975 season . He confounded all doubts , however , being one of the key players to not only lead the Islanders to their first playoff berth that season but all the way to the Stanley Cup semifinals , where the Isles lost in a hard fought seven game series to the eventual Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers ; Parisé scored 16 points in 17 playoff games that year , second on the Isles only to Drouin , who had been acquired in a separate deal with Minnesota that season . Parisé played two and a half more seasons on Long Island , adding over 20 goals each of his full seasons and providing excellent defensive play . Retirement . Halfway through the 1978 season , Parisé was traded one final time to the Cleveland Barons . The following year , with the demise of the Barons and their merger with Minnesota , his rights were assigned once more to the North Stars , where he played his final season before retirement , serving as the North Stars ' team captain . In total , Parisé played 890 games in the NHL , scoring 238 goals and 356 assists for 594 points , adding 706 penalty minutes . He also had 27 goals and 31 assists in 86 playoff games . After his retirement , he served as a coach in the North Stars ' organization , as assistant coach between 1980 and 1988 , except for the 1984 season , when he was the head coach for Minnesota ' s minor league affiliate , the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Central Hockey League ; he recorded a 35 - 35 - 2 mark as coach . Thereafter Parisé retired to Minnesota where he coached and was hockey director at Shattuck - Saint Mary ' s , where his son Zach Parise , Sidney Crosby , Jack Johnson and Jonathan Toews played . On April 23 , 2008 , Parisé was named the head coach and general manager of the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League .