All offseason, the question of whether Zach Parise would return to the Islanders has hung over the organization.

On Monday, it finally got some resolution. Sort of.

Parise, who turned 39 in July, will not be at training camp, preferring to spend time with his family, general manager Lou Lamoriello said at his pre-training camp availability.

But he is not, at least as of right now, retiring.

“We’ll see how the rest of the season goes, but right now it’s important for him to be there,” Lamoriello said. “He’s spent a couple years and so that is the decision at this point.”

The Minnesota native seemed to be on the fence with the decision throughout last season, caught between his passion for playing hockey and wanting to spend time with his family, which still resided in the Twin Cities.

Lamoriello said that the door is still open for Parise to come back and play, and always will be.

“To my knowledge, he is not retiring,” Lamoriello said. “In fact, I don’t feel he will at this point.”

Following the first-round playoff loss to Carolina, an emotional Parise sat quietly at his locker, the only movement coming when he hugged Kyle Palmieri.

“It’s been great,” he said on breakup day, regarding his two-year stint with the Islanders. “Really, I remember [J.P. Parise, his father], when he got traded here, almost saying that he was dreading coming here. He’d never been and was dreading it.

“He said he fell in love with the place and then was devastated when he had to leave. I understand what he was talking about. This was a great place to play, a great community, the organization’s outstanding. For us to be able to share something like that, it’s pretty neat.”

Parise has played 1,224 career NHL games across three franchises — the Devils, Wild and Islanders — and was still an effective player for the Islanders last season. 

At age 38, Parise scored 21 goals for the Islanders, third-most on the team, and played all 82 games.

On a league-minimum contract — which he was able to sign knowing Minnesota is set to pay him through 2029 after buying out the last four years of his deal there — he easily exceeded the value of his cap hit.

Should he return at some point, it would presumably be on the same league minimum deal.

That would be the perfect situation for the Islanders, who are up against the cap and could use another capable scorer.

In the immediate future, the Isles are left with an open spot in their bottom six, for which Oliver Wahlstrom and Simon Holmstrom will compete for in training camp.

But in the longer term, the question that hung over the offseason is still not quite answered.

“I think everybody knows the relationship that I have with Zach from when he was 17 years old,” Lamoriello, who drafted Parise with the Devils, said. “And I understand, appreciate and respect the decision, where he’s at. But I think that when you have a player like that, who loves the game the way he does and had the success he had and what he did for the team, it’s a tough thing for him to make the decision.

“So you allow it to go as long as you possibly can without pressing or asking and I think he made the right decision for his family. And then we’ll just keep the door open for him.”