That's odd, but Deboer must have thought that Marty played well against the Habs the other day and the Habs are the conference opponent. I also would have thought that Marty would have started at home though.
IMO, there's no way they should put Zajac with Parise right now. As crazy as that sounds, Henrique has been way too good to take away everything he's done. I think we'd be better off with him on the 3rd line right now. I wouldn't be surprised if we have Zajac centering Elias and Sykora eventually. Of course this will probably have to wait until JJ gets back, unless we want to Carter still holding the 3rd together, which isn't the best option long-term IMO.