One of the NHL’s top prospects wants you to want to have dinner with him.

Calgary Flames’ blueliner Zayne Parekh, the 19-year-old who matched Bobby Orr with multiple 30-goal seasons in the Ontario Hockey League and scored in his NHL debut at the end of last season, is spending a lot of time trying to evolve off the ice.

“It's been a tough month for me off the ice, kind of just reinventing myself as a person, trying to be a guy I want to have dinner with,” he said at Flames’ development camp this week.

“Working on myself off the ice, I think, is really important, and something I'm taking really serious. You’ve just kind of got to keep growing as a person. I think for me it's completely aside fro Taylor Fritz m hockey, and it's not even close to having anything to do with hockey, but learning how to communicate........

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