{"id":452989,"date":"2026-02-10T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/452989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:53:19","slug":"rangers-likely-to-move-vincent-trocheck-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/452989\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Likely To Move Vincent Trocheck \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Rangers GM Chris Drury released<\/a> a letter to the fans last month announcing a retool, he noted that this process could \u201cmean saying goodbye to players that have brought us and our fans great moments over the years.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ve already seen one of those players on the move with last week\u2019s trade that saw Artemi Panarin<\/a> get moved to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

But retools don\u2019t often stop at one core player being on the move.\u00a0 Meanwhile, with the market having few defined sellers at this point and a lot of teams still being in the playoff picture, those who are willing to move out some talent appear to be poised to capitalize on a strong trade market.<\/p>\n

To that end, Chris Johnston of TSN and The Athletic recently noted on Edmonton Sports Talk (video link<\/a>) that it seems likely that center Vincent Trocheck<\/a> will be on the move before the March 6th trade deadline.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t many Rangers who have lived up to expectations offensively this season but Trocheck may very well be one of those who have.\u00a0 After a quieter performance in 2024-25 that saw him collect 26 goals and 33 assists in 82 games (compared to 77 points the year before), the 32-year-old has bounced back a bit this season, notching 36 points in 43 games (a 69-point pace over a full 82-game campaign).<\/p>\n

On top of that, Trocheck remains one of the better players at the faceoff dot, winning 56.5% of his draws this season.\u00a0 He\u2019s also logging more than two minutes per night on both the power play and penalty kill and close to 21 minutes per contest overall.\u00a0 Suffice it to say, he\u2019s about as complete of a player as you\u2019re going to find on the trade market.<\/p>\n

His two-way skillset is what led the Rangers to sign him to a seven-year, $39.375MM contract back in 2022, a deal that still has three years remaining on it after that one.\u00a0 With a $5.625MM AAV that is already now below-average for a second center, Trocheck is an option that more teams should be able to afford, meaning that New York shouldn\u2019t necessarily have to use one of its salary retention slots to get a deal done.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Trocheck does have some trade protection in his deal.\u00a0 Although he no longer has a full no-move clause, he can still block a trade to a dozen teams. \u00a0\u00a0That would give him a chance to affect his own trade talks, though nowhere close to the extent that Panarin ultimately did to ensure he landed with the Kings.<\/p>\n

At this point, the list of potential suitors for Trocheck would probably be longer than the list of teams that wouldn\u2019t show interest in him.\u00a0 Accordingly, if Drury decides to pull the trigger and move out a longer-term core piece, he will be in a much stronger position than he had with Panarin to elicit a top-end return that moves their retooling process along.\u00a0 Once the trade freeze ends (on February 22nd at 10:59 PM CT), the Rangers will have just 12 days before the trade deadline to try to find a suitable trade for Trocheck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Rangers GM Chris Drury released a letter to the fans last month announcing a retool, he noted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,35,4,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-452989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116045022347463717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452989","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=452989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}