Parker Ford

We had Ashton Sautner and Dawson Bartow with us.

I think Parker Ford was sitting with Ty's parents or at least spent some time with them.

Thomas Millich was a teammate of his going all the way back to junior was in the building.

So there may have been a few other guys sprinkled around, but they were able to catch kind of the first, second period before making sure they got to bed in time for the home opener yesterday.

So the support is so strong throughout that room, and we've seen that.

I mean, when...

Parker Ford came up to make his debut.

Ty was his roommate at the time and there was just so much love and support flowing from that group when he got that opportunity, of course, scored his first goal in his first game.

He had his billet family from his Seattle Thunderbirds days come all the way from Tucson, Arizona, where they live now.

We talked about it when Parker Ford had his debut just, you know, basically an hour away from his hometown.

and the roar that he got.

When Tyrell came out to greet his entourage after the game, colleague Mike McIntyre told me there was a huge roar.

I hope as a team, they're sitting there.

I don't care if it's Connor Hellebuck or Parker Ford.

No disrespect to Parker Ford.

He doesn't want to be here.

He's not part of us anymore.

And what more confirmation we got from Kelly Moore, who's down there and reporting on this sentence test that said, Scott O'Neill confirms Thomas Millich will also be assigned to the Moose.

Scott O'Neill told him Isaac Phillips, Noah Greger, Nikita Chipperkoff, and Parker Ford are going on waivers today at 1 p.m.

He also said Elias Salamonson is ahead of schedule, and he's going on the trip with a potential return around mid-October.

So, millage to the moose.

Phillips, Greger, Cheberkov, and Ford going to the waiver wire at 1 o'clock and Selamonson ahead of schedule and is going on the trip with a look at or an eye to mid-October return.

Now, I mentioned yesterday the Boston Bruins might grab Parker Ford.

There are some players on waivers that I think could help a number of teams.

I don't think Parker Ford will be claimed ahead of Brandon Tanev, who just got waived, I believe.

I think you, you know, and when it comes to waivers, like you kind of got to pick which one, you know, can go.

Like Parker Ford could get wavered.

Jaeger is the guy that can go back down without being on waivers.

But I think he's making this team.

look, for Jets fans who hate losing games, the Kovacevichs of the world and stuff like that on waivers.

Don't think that another team won't pick up Danny Shilkin.

Don't think that the Boston Bruins will not pick up Parker Ford.

Oh, I could see Parker Ford.

yeah and that's one of the things I like about him the most is that he's always in a position to do the right thing right like sometimes when and you notice it a little bit during the prospects challenge especially with Vigo Bjork there'd be times where he would get the puck and he would be looking to go to the to the right spot and then someone wouldn't be there and it's like oh uh what do I do now let me convey my options and then get the puck out

I don't know how you see him, Tice, but how I see Lucas Wallen is somewhat of a comparable to Parker Ford, maybe without a little bit of the agitation that Parker can sometimes attract, but two guys who play the game the right way.

They're undersized guys, but they are not the least bit hesitant to get into the trenches.

Right.

That was classic start off with a young lineup on the road against the other team's kind of best players at home.

But Parker Ford opened the scoring.

in the game on a really nice pass from Isaac Phillips and a backdoor cut from, from Parker Ford and kind of a tap in there.

And then later on in the game, Jacob Julian scored Winnipeg second goal assisted by Lucas Walleen and Colby Barlow.

But I mean, less when you realize early on, like, okay, they're probably not winning this game because Emerson's playing a good lineup and some of their best players.

And it's just like, whoop, where he's going, wherever the puck is, you know, kind of that F1 for, for a good chunk of the shift when it's in the ozone and he's working to kind of get that retrieval.

And so I thought that when he was doing that, there were some instances in which Braden Yeager second pass out of that kind of Kevin, he retrieval, whatever sort of situation was, looked really nice and i was really excited to see that

yeah 100 uh just to build off of that i'll talk about parker ford a little bit i thought you know i see some people in chat mentioning that he had a good game he kind of has that that kevin he thing that you mentioned right where he's a really strong four checker uh and and people notice that and he's got like bottom six NHL or, you know, in a pinch written all over him, right? Like, oh, someone gets hurt in the bottom six, you call up Parker Ford and kind of don't miss a beat from that sense.