The New Jersey Devils have announced that they’ve signed forward Xavier Parent to a one-year entry-level contract beginning in the 2025-26 season. He has 11 goals and 15 assists for 26 points in 44 games after this season with the Utica Comets. Parent missed the start of the season due to an injury.
Before going pro, Parent spent five seasons in the QMJHL, putting up 102 goals and 113 assists for 215 points in 244 games with the Halifax Mooseheads and Sherbrooke Phoenix. In his final season in the Q, he would be named captain of the Phoenix and had a breakout season, putting up 51 goals and 55 assists for 106 points in 65 games. Those numbers would earn him a spot on the QMJHL Second All-Star Team. He would also represent Canada at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in 2018, where he scored two goals and an assist for three points, and Canada went on to win a gold medal.
Parent, 23, is in his third year as a pro. He spent the last three seasons with the Comets, where he’s scored 29 goals and 48 assists for 77 points in 129 games. He would have three goals and an assist for four points in five games during the 2023 Calder Cup Playoffs. The Sherbrooke, Quebec native began his pro career in the ECHL with the Adirondack Thunder during the 2022-23 season, where he put up 23 goals and 28 assists for 51 points in 50 games before being called up to Utica.
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