Denis Parshin is a domestic hockey player who plays in the position of an extreme striker. Over his many years of career in Russia, he has participated in all the Gagarin Cup draws since the founding of the tournament. Defended the colors of four different KHL clubs.
Denis Parshin is a pupil of Yaroslavl hockey. He was born in Soviet times on February 1, 1986, eighty kilometers from Yaroslavl, the city of Andropov (now Rybinsk). From a young age, Denis was distinguished by a love of sports. The hockey biography of the player began in his native Yaroslavl, where he received his primary sports education. When the young hockey player turned 16 years old, he moved to Moscow to the location of the sports school CSKA.
The beginning of Denis Parshin's career
Denis Parshin’s career began in the camp of Moscow “army men” even before the Russian Championship was renamed the Continental Hockey League (KHL). First he played in the First Division for the CSKA double, and from the 2003-2004 season he became a debutant of the main team playing in the Russian Ice Hockey Super League.
Until 2007, it was not possible to fully win a place in CSKA. The attacker was periodically sent to strengthen the second team of “army men”. Only in the 2007–2008 season was Denis Parshin able to gain a foothold as a player in the Russian Super Hockey League (RSL). In this game year, Parshin played 56 matches for CSKA and scored 35 points (12 + 23 with a 46-minute penalty). In 2008, he took part in the playoffs with the team. Scored once in six games held.
In total, during his career in the RSL, Denis Parshin played in 216 meetings with a total of + 24 and 90 points (37 + 53).
Career Denis Parshin in the KHL
Parshin spent his first season in the KHL as part of the Moscow army team. The forward continued to play for CSKA until the 2012–2013 season. The new season started unsuccessfully, spent only nine games, and then changed his club registration.
Parshin’s new team was the Ufa club Salavat Yulaev. But in it Parshin spent only one year, played less than thirty games.
Season 2013 - 2014, the extreme striker drew an agreement with the Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo”. He played 46 games in which he was able to score 33 points (15 +18) with a plus or minus indicator of -1.
The fourth KHL club for Denis Parshin was the Omsk “Vanguard”. In this team, the forward was able to gain a foothold in three full seasons, the most successful of which was the first. In it, the striker showed his best performance. In sixty games, he hit the opponent’s goal 25 times and helped his teammates to distinguish themselves thirty times. Denis Parshin played for the team from Omsk until the 2016-2017 season, and then for the second time moved to Ufa.
The current team of Denis Parshin is the Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo”, in which the hockey player has been playing since 2017.