{"id":476584,"date":"2026-02-28T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476584\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:23:10","slug":"the-likeliest-player-to-be-traded-before-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476584\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘likeliest’ player to be traded before deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Rangers are retooling their roster<\/a> and could be very active with one week to go before the NHL Trade Deadline<\/a>. New York’s intentions were made public by general manager Chris Drury<\/a>. There are a number of players who could be moved, from Braden Schneider to Mika Zibanejad to Vincent Trocheck.<\/p>\n

What New York does obviously remains to be seen. However, there is a lot of discussion over who will go and who will stay. With one week to go, more information has come to light. A recent report from The Athletic’s Vincent Z. Mercogliano identified the most likely<\/a> trade candidate on this Rangers team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Schneider being traded feels like a 50-50 proposition, the perception around the league is that Vincent Trocheck is the likeliest Ranger to be dealt in the next week,\u201d Mercogliano wrote on Friday.<\/p>\n

Trocheck is no stranger to trade rumors<\/a>. He is an incredibly well-respected player around the league. This respect saw him make Team USA’s Olympic roster, as well. He helped Team USA win Gold in Milan on Sunday over Team Canada.<\/p>\n

In the NHL, Trocheck has been a reliable two-way player. His offensive production is down in 2025-26, but he can still provide scoring depth for teams in need. The veteran pivot can work as a second-line center, making him quite the attractive trade candidate.<\/p>\n

Trocheck is signed beyond this season, too. He is signed to a cap hit of $5.625 million and won’t be a free agent until 2029. He does own no-trade protection<\/a> and can block a trade to 12 teams of his choosing this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Rangers are retooling their roster and could be very active with one week to go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,107,548,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-476584","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-nhl-rumors","15":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","16":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476584","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=476584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}