{"id":424742,"date":"2026-01-24T02:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:34:30","slug":"vincent-trocheck-predicament-at-center-of-rangers-retool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424742\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Trocheck predicament at center of Rangers&#8217; retool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 New York had the potential to be the pinnacle of Vincent Trocheck\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>After having a front-row seat to the pesky center\u2019s impact on the Hurricanes in the 2022 playoffs, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/13\/rangers-expected-to-sign-vincent-trocheck-in-nhl-free-agency\/#:~:text=Rangers%20signing%20Vincent%20Trocheck%20in,spot%20next%20to%20Artemi%20Panarin.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers signed Trocheck to a seven-year, $39.75 million deal<\/a> to replace outgoing second-line center Ryan Strome. It was essentially an exchange of skill sets, but the hope was that Trocheck could give the top six a more blue-collar style.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, Trocheck has been an undisputed upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>President and general manager Chris Drury is now in a position where he has to listen on just about every player on the Rangers roster, and the 32-year-old Trocheck is a high-value trade chip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 New York had the potential to be the pinnacle of Vincent Trocheck\u2019s career. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,350,336,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-424742","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-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115947743801866007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424742","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=424742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}