{"id":245940,"date":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/245940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","slug":"rangers-center-to-miss-at-least-7-more-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/245940\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers center to miss at least 7 more games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Trocheck was placed on long-term injured reserve Wednesday with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/09\/sports\/rangers-first-win-overshadowed-by-vincent-trocheck-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an upper-body injury<\/a>, so the Rangers will be without him until at least Nov. 1 against Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Trocheck <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/11\/sports\/vincent-trochecks-injury-has-rangers-ripple-effect-for-mika-zibanejad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had been considered week-to-week<\/a> after suffering the injury against Buffalo last Thursday and the IR move is retroactive to Saturday, the first game he missed.<\/p>\n<p>Trocheck\u2019s absence has no doubt played a part in the Rangers\u2019 scoring woes, as they\u2019ve been shut out in back-to-back home games.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37389023\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/defends-new-york-rangers-center-113030886_f39333.jpg\" alt=\"Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) skates with the puck against the Penguins' Ben Kindel (81) on Oct. 7, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37389023\"  \/>Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) skates with the puck against the Penguins\u2019 Ben Kindel (81) on Oct. 7, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.76464844;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37389024\" width=\"451\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-york-rangers-center-vincent-113147037.jpg\" alt=\"Rangers center Vincent Trocheck was injured against the Sabres on Oct. 9, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37389024\"  \/>Rangers center Vincent Trocheck was injured against the Sabres on Oct. 9, 2025. Timothy T. Ludwig-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>He was second in goals on the team a year ago and while the Rangers have had plenty of scoring chances in their most recent two losses, they\u2019ve been unable to find the back of the net, becoming the first team in NHL history <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/14\/sports\/rangers-futility-reaches-historic-mark-in-shutout-loss-to-oilers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to fail to score in their first three home games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers are also dealing with another injury issue, as Will Borgen didn\u2019t practice Wednesday due to a lower-body injury. <\/p>\n<p>Scott Morrow was called up in case Borgen can\u2019t play in Toronto on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vincent Trocheck was placed on long-term injured reserve Wednesday with an upper-body injury, so the Rangers will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-245940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkrangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rangers","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115379283265661700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}