{"id":475931,"date":"2026-02-27T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/475931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:46:11","slug":"wild-emerging-as-frontrunner-in-vincent-trocheck-trade-talks-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/475931\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Emerging As Frontrunner In Vincent Trocheck Trade Talks \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Wild gear up for an all-in trade deadline following their earlier acquisition of\u00a0Quinn Hughes<\/a>, they\u2019re now the league-wide favorite to acquire center\u00a0Vincent Trocheck<\/a>\u00a0from the Rangers, according to Vince Z. Mercogliano of The Athletic<\/a> and David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s interest in Trocheck dates back several weeks but was surely fueled by Chris Johnston of TSN and The Athletic\u2019s<\/a> report earlier this month that the Rangers had essentially resigned themselves to moving him by the deadline, as compared to making it a summer deal. For a team that lost a top-six center in Marco Rossi<\/a>\u00a0in the Hughes deal, adding another one \u2013 a clear-cut upgrade, no less \u2013 is a natural next step for general manager Bill Guerin as he aims to guide the Wild out of a cutthroat Central Division picture in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

While salary cap considerations have kept the Wild out of major trade conversations in recent years, that\u2019s no longer the case. Even after the Hughes deal, they project to have $12.3MM in cap space on deadline day, per PuckPedia. That\u2019s more than enough to take on Trocheck\u2019s deal, which runs at a cap hit of $5.625MM through 2028-29, with no retention and without subtracting a roster player from the mix.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has depleted a good portion of its valuable young talent, shipping off Liam Ohgren<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Zeev Buium<\/a>\u00a0alongside Rossi in the Hughes trade, but has more to spare. As Mercogliano writes, 2022 first-rounder\u00a0Danila Yurov<\/a>\u00a0is likely a non-starter. The rookie has eight goals and 22 points in 52 outings this season and is now Minnesota\u2019s clear-cut top \u201cprospect,\u201d depending on your definition of the word. Mercogliano relays word from his Minnesota-based colleague, Michael Russo, that he \u201cwould be very difficult to pry away,\u201d even for a talent like Trocheck with 37 points in 44 games on an offensively stagnant Rangers club.<\/p>\n

Aside from that roadblock, there are still plenty of other names the Wild could leverage for the Rangers to consider. Center\u00a0Charlie Stramel<\/a>, the Wild\u2019s first-rounder in 2023, has recovered nicely from a tough start to his college career and is now a standout 21-year-old senior at Michigan State, posting a 19-21\u201340 scoring line in 30 games with a +30 rating that leads forwards nationally. Right-shot defenseman David Jiricek<\/a>, drafted sixth overall by the Blue Jackets in 2022, hasn\u2019t demonstrated much forward progress since his acquisition last season, and it stands to reason they\u2019d be comfortable flipping him as a result.<\/p>\n

Trocheck does have some say in where he ends up with a 12-team no-trade list. The 32-year-old is reportedly open to a move to the Twin Cities but would otherwise prefer to stay in the Eastern Conference. Pagnotta reports that the Kings, Jets, Mammoth, and Avalanche have expressed some level of interest as well, but those could all end up being non-starters based on his M-NTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Wild gear up for an all-in trade deadline following their earlier acquisition of\u00a0Quinn Hughes, they\u2019re now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,38,35,30,4,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-475931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-minnesota-wild","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newsstand","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475931","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=475931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}