Mark Parrish, bought out by the Wild after Year 2 of a five-year contract, already has as much or more goals than every Wild player except for three — in one game.

With basically no training camp, the former Jefferson High star and Wild winger netted a hat trick in his Stars debut last night.

The Stars — technically the team Parrish grew up once upon a time in Minnesota.

Also, if you didn’t see, I did a story on a look ahead at the USA Team for the 2010 Games here in Vancouver. Here’s the story.  I’m glad I had that sitting in the can to run from here in Vancouver since flight delays caused me to miss the Wild’s very optional practice yesterday.

Here is the list I put together  of potential U.S. players. Normally I would have put the Johnson Brothers, Erik and Jack, (OK, they’re not brothers) as shoo-ins, but both are going to be coming off serious, serious injuries, so we’ll have to see how they rehab and look at next year’s evaluation camp and the start of the season.

I did forget Jason Pominville as a possible contender. The Sabres forward has dual citizenship and played on last year’s Worlds, I believe.

Talk to you after the morning skate.

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