Ryan Suter and Zach Parise chose to take some time to sort through offers from a slew of suitors on the first day of NHL free agency.

Suter’s agent, Neil Sheehy, told The Associated Press that his client wouldn’t make a decision on Sunday and didn’t expect one from him soon.

Parise, meanwhile, said he thinks he’ll make a decision by Monday after opting not to sign a deal to stay with New Jersey and becoming a free agent.

“I’m not at liberty to say right now who’s in or anything like that,” Parise told reporters. “But just because it got to noon, by no means does that say that the Devils aren’t one of my top teams.”

Parise’s agents, Don Meehan and Wade Arnott, didn’t allow teams to have face-to-face meetings with the star forward despite at least one being in the area that was hoping to have an audience with him.

“He has narrowed the list of teams to a small select group,” Meehan wrote in an email to The AP. “The Devils are still in consideration.”

While Suter and Parise waited to make a move, P.A. Parenteau was among the many NHL free agents to accept offers in the opening hours of free agency. Parenteau, a 29-year-old forward coming off a 67-point season with the New York Islanders, signed a four-year contract with Colorado just hours after hitting the market.

Detroit coach Mike Babcock traveled to Toronto to be part of the franchise’s planned pitch to Parise.

“We’re going to get in the mix with him and see what we can do,” Babcock told The AP in a telephone interview minutes after teams could begin talks with free agents. “We’re going to do everything we can.”