Juuso Parssinen of Rangers scores fancy goal for Finland at World Championships

Juuso Parssinen continues to make a positive impression and play a big role for Finland at the 2025 World Hockey Championships. The New York Rangers forward added to his impressive play at the tournament Saturday when he scored a highlight-reel goal off the rush in a 2-1 win against Latvia.

Parssinen made a slick between the legs play at high speed approaching the Latvia net early in the second period. He appeared to be trying to pass to an onrushing teammate, but caught a break when the puck hit the skate of a Latvian defenseman and deflected into the net to give Finland a 1-0 lead at 7:37 of the second period.

That was Parsinnen’s only shot on goal Saturday, but he made it count. He also won six of 10 face-offs and logged an even 10 minutes TOI.

The 24-year-old now has four points (three goals, one assist) in five games for Finland, which has won four of five. Parssinen’s first two goals in the tournament were game-winners, and he’s plus-6 so far.

His goal Saturday is quickly becoming a go-to highlight on social media. But that’s nothing new for Parssinen. He blew it up a couple years ago when he scored this between-the-legs beauty for the Nashville Predators in overtime against the Minnesota Wild.

This is the potential the Rangers see in Parssinen, whom they acquired from the Colorado Avalanche on March 1 in the Ryan Lindgren trade. It’s, in part, what led the Rangers to sign Parssinen to a two-year, $2.5 million contract a couple weeks ago.

Parssinen was actually scratched for more games (12) than he played (11) with the Rangers after the trade. When he was in the lineup, Parssinen skated in the bottom six, both at center and on the wing. He won 40.3 percent of his face-offs in limited opportunity. The Rangers had only a 28.57 percent expected goals share when Parssinen was on the ice 5v5, per Natural Stat Trick, and were out-chanced by a whopping 77-21 margin with him on the ice.

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But Parssinen came alive offensively late in the season, with five points (two goals, three assists) in his final three games. And he’s carried that momentum into the World Championships.

Can he bring it consistently? That’s always been the question for the talented forward, who offers versatility with the ability to play center or on the wing. Even at the Worlds, it hasn’t been all good. Parssinen was demolished at the face-off dot prior to Saturday’s much better showing.

Next season will give the Rangers a better idea if they have an extra depth forward on their hands or an emerging young talent ready to take the next step.

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Carson Soucy’s impact on the New York Rangers wasn’t memorable. With very few goals and points added to his name, he made next to no impression as a good trade that the Rangers made. The passion was there to be in New York, but fans didn’t see that on the ice. Soucy needs to be better to get on the fans’ good side.

Expectations

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Soucy is a newcomer to the Rangers. Fans only saw him as a Blueshirt for a couple of weeks before the Rangers ended their season. Soucy is a 30 year old defensemen. Many hockey fans know his name from his previous team, the Vancouver Canucks. New York had fresh blood on the team, but did he perform to make the trade worth it? He joined the Rangers on March 6, 2025. The Blueshirts got eliminated before making the playoffs, and Soucy didn’t get to play much after being acquired. He only played 16 games total with the Rangers. And to add to his performance, Soucy didn’t significantly impact his old team, the Canucks. There were no impressive plays on the ice in Vancouver, which didn’t make him stand out. His impact of the Canucks gave no special energy; he played 59 games and only got three goals and seven assists out of all those. Soucy had a vision to come to New York with the influence of playing with Will Borgen and J.T. Miller. His dedication to this went so hard that he waived his no-trade clause to come to New York.