Rangers Trade Jacob Trouba To The Ducks
TSN’s Pierre LeBrun reports the New York Rangers are trading defenseman Jacob Trouba to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenseman Urho Vaakanainen and a 2025 fourth-round pick.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: LeBrun also reports the Rangers won’t be retaining salary in the deal, meaning the Ducks are taking on his full $8 million average annual value for this season and next.
New York Rangers trade Jacob Trouba to the Anaheim Ducks (NHL Images).
It’s not much of a return for Trouba. Vaakanainen was a former first-round pick of the Boston Bruins and was shipped to the Ducks at the March 2022 trade deadline as part of the deal that sent Hampus Lindholm to the Bruins. The 25-year-old was used as a depth defenseman by the Ducks. He’s battled injuries in his career and is currently on IR with an upper-body injury.
Rangers general manager Chris Drury reached the point where moving Trouba and his cap hit was more important than the return.
The defenseman used his full no-movement clause to block Drury’s attempt to trade him to the Detroit Red Wings in June. Given Trouba’s sub-par performance this season it was obvious he was bothered by Drury’s efforts to move him this summer.
Trouba carries a 15-team no-trade list this season, meaning he could be shipped out to another club before the March 7 trade deadline. He could be a solid addition to the rebuilding Ducks if he returns to the physical style that earned him the Rangers’ captaincy.
Whether he regains his form in Anaheim remains to be seen. If he doesn’t, they could have a difficult time drumming up interest in the trade market.
Trading Trouba might not be the only move Drury has up his sleeve. It was reported last week he’d made several veterans available in the trade market, with Trouba and power forward Chris Kreider mentioned in the rumor mill. It’ll be interesting to see if Kreider follows Trouba out of New York in the coming weeks.
Nyr gets little but cap space to use later. Ducks get upgrade on D and have tons of cap space Still if I was Trouba I say stick me on waivers. Then nyr get no added assets
I wonder if he played a geee-tar as he exited through the Trouba-door?
Trade Trouba and sign Igor. That’s done interesting timing.
Taking that big old chicken wing out west. Happy trails Mr.Trouba.
Igor signs big contract too much for me.
“Given Trouba’s sub-par performance this season it was obvious he was bothered by Drury’s efforts to move him this summer.”
If Trouba didn’t want to leave wouldn’t have made sense for him to try all the harder?
Maybe Drury was correct that it was time for him to go. After all, the return for him was zilch, cap issues or not.
Last week people here and everywhere were talking Trouba salary retained + Othmann or Perault.
I called bs.
Now people are saying how underwhelming Troubas return was? Lmfao. Priceless!!!
For the record, they traded the wrong 2nd pairing d-man
It seems that the Ducks should have been on his no-go list. He did veto going to the BJ’s….why did he relent and go to the Ducks? They must have been serious about waiving him and he realized that he would be picked up regardless of his cap hit. An $8M D-man with eroding skills that can be very physical is still in demand for guard duty rather than suppressing shots on his net!
They will flip him next deadline for more than what they gave up to get him and if he has bounce back next year without the pressure of ny. The return will be even better
I think they need his cap hit to stay abov th cap floor if thy deal Vatrano, Fowler and Zegras.
I think Trouba relented because he just wanted the situation over with, and he had a say in going to Anaheim. If he was placed on waivers and got claimed, Trouba wouldn’t have had a choice of where to play unless he retired.
and curious comments from Trouba, sounds like Yzerman didn’t try to acquire him during the negotiations, guess he changed his mind after the summer trade got vetoed. Wings are a mess that is screaming for a new coach
players are going to think twice about signing with the Rangers as long as Drury is in charge, the way he has been disrepecting the vets on the team, starting with Gooderow. Rangers are going to really miss Trouba. Schneider is now the only physical dman they have, but no opponents fear him like they did Trouba when coming down the wing
Lindgren is no cream puff
“players are going to think twice about signing with the Rangers as long as Drury is in charge“
Are they though?
Tampa has done this twice, to very popular players.
Do they seem to have issues signing players?
Tampa traded and didnt resign players, but NYR forced players out, big difference