Report: Zach Parise shows pity on bottom feeding team.

You have to think that Zach Parise is looking at the state of the Devils and has to be glad he left when he did. The New Jersey Devils are not mathematically eliminated yet, but it's fair to say they won’t make the postseason this year.It’ll mark the organization’s third straight miss, a fact that took their former captain by surprise. “I never would’ve predicted they’d miss the playoffs three years in a row. Just because of the way things are run,” Minnesota forward Zach Parise said prior to Tuesday’s 6-2 blowout win over the Devils, per the Star-Ledger. “I hope they can pull off something at the end of the year, or next year, and get back in.” Parise, who spent the first seven years of his career in New Jersey, went to the playoffs six times with the Devils — the only time the Devils missed during the Parise era was the 2010-11 campaign which, not coincidentally, was the year Parise missed 69 games after a torn meniscus in his right knee. New Jersey’s last playoff appearance, also not coincidentally, was in Parise’s last year with the club, when the Devils lost in the Stanley Cup Final to Los Angeles. It must be nice to be in greener pastures.