Brodeur: Devils waited too long to sign Parise

Extremely candid comments, via Fire & Ice, from New Jersey Devils mainstay Martin Brodeur ahead of Thursday night's reunion game against former teammate Zach Parise and his Minnesota Wild.

“We had plenty of chances,” Brodeur said. “We had two years to talk to him and figure out something and we waited and waited and it was too late.”

He continued.

“When you know you have an athlete that is going to be a game breaker and he’s going to be one of the top players (available) and the rules are free agency comes a lot younger than it used to, you have to make commitments. You see around the league some of the guys, the Stamkos and etc., they don’t wait. They get them done. And we let him walk to free agency. That’s a decision of the organization, regardless of it was financial at the time with the ownership that we had, but he was our property for a long time and we lost him.”

Also worth reading in that particular article are Brodeur's comments on how close that decision between the Wild and Devils seemed to have been for Parise.

A recent article by Randy Miller at NJ.com also alludes to how Ryan Suter and Zach Parise could have both been Devils.

Source: Tom Gulitti, NorthJersey.com