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Jacob Trouba Likely To Remain With Rangers Next Season

July 16, 2024 at 11:10 am CDT | by Josh Erickson 11 Comments

After a healthy dose of trade rumors earlier in the offseason, it appears Rangers captain Jacob Trouba won’t be on the move this summer after all, reports Arthur Staple of The Athletic. Staple adds that “there was never anything close” in regards to a rumored deal around the draft that would have sent Trouba to the Red Wings, which he would have nixed anyway by placing Detroit on his 15-team no-trade list. A source also tells Staple that Rangers general manager Chris Drury has spoken to Trouba in the past few weeks to do some “fence-mending on the team’s part.”

One important consideration in any Trouba trade, as Staple highlights, is the lack of a suitable internal replacement. The Blueshirts don’t have a right-shot defenseman ready to take on everyday NHL minutes behind Adam Fox and Braden Schneider. They only have three RDs signed to NHL contracts outside of that trio – veteran depth defender Chad Ruhwedel, who’s best served as a No. 7, Casey Fitzgerald, who spent all of last season in the minors; and 22-year-old Victor Mancini, who’s a few years away from NHL consideration as he enters his first professional campaign. There aren’t any impact UFAs left on the market who would replace Trouba’s two-way, physically-oriented style of play, either.

It is clear that Trouba should expect a decreased workload in the Big Apple next season, though. The 30-year-old has averaged north of 21 minutes per game in all 11 of his NHL seasons, but that streak could come to an end with the younger Schneider set to be elevated into a top-four role after a strong end to the 2023-24 campaign. Trouba, who’s signed to an $8MM cap hit through 2025-26, is coming off arguably the most disappointing season of his career with 22 points (three goals, 19 assists) with a -7 rating in 69 games. He struggled to control possession, posting a career-low 47.2 CF% at even strength.

That down season, plus his hefty no-trade list, made his deal understandably difficult to move. Staple expects that to change next summer, calling the chances of a Trouba trade in the 2025 offseason “nearly certain.” That’s because the Rangers will need every inch of cap space available to re-sign RFAs Alexis Lafrenière, K’Andre Miller and top pending UFA netminder Igor Shesterkin, whose combined cap hits could very well total over $20MM.

A lack of a Trouba move indicates the Rangers are likely done with major moves for the summer. They have over $5.1MM in projected cap space remaining, per PuckPedia, but a solid chunk of that will go toward a new deal for RFA defender Ryan Lindgren.

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  1. kingcong95

    11 months ago

    Due to family reasons he was not planning to waive the NTC for anyone. Detroit was on his OK list last year.

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  2. DED

    11 months ago

    Not really surprising given what’s been public knowledge for some time (wife’s medical residency & newborn).

    A contract hangover from Jeff Gorton’s days as Rangers’ GM.

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  3. Bucky76

    11 months ago

    Like he F’in should he is the Captain for a reason.

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  4. iceman813

    11 months ago

    Could care less about the wifey situation…
    If ur coming back…come back to play ur best hockey…last year was a disgrace…
    Come with a purpo to get this team to the Stanley Cup…as a captain that should be ur only goal..

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  5. ChipWest121

    11 months ago

    Technically there’s 16 other teams the Rangers could make a trade with. If they can’t figure it out, tough luck.

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    • wreckage

      11 months ago

      The article only states he has a 15 team no-trade clause. Nothing about 15 teams he could be traded to.

      Either way. That list likely has all 7 Canadian teams on it, plus any team he does not consider a team rival (NJD, NYI as rivals they won’t easily entertain) than division competition. He can easily narrow it down to “I’ll accept a trade to DAL, FLO, TBL, CAR, PIT, VGK, ect. And even Pit, TBL, Flo, and a few others could be considered no goes with their cap spaces and terms of willingness to take him.

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    • Nha Trang

      11 months ago

      … sixteen other teams with (a) the cap space to acquire him, (b) the need for a right side defenseman who is (c) over thirty, and (d) in definite decline, who is making (e) Norris-trophy finalist money for decidedly non-All-Star play, and which wouldn’t (f) point and laugh at the Rangers, and demand some serious bribe in high round draft picks New York would cringe at paying?

      Yeah, I didn’t think so. Rangers want to be rid of him, it’d be less painful to buy him out.

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  6. uvmfiji

    11 months ago

    The Troubanator! Troubanating trade offers!

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  7. Karlander

    11 months ago

    What is unfortunate for the Rangers is Trouba likely has less trade value a year from now. Right now they would gain considerable cap space and likely get a good prospect and decent draft pick. Next year they will be lucky to get a bag of pucks for him

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    • Nha Trang

      11 months ago

      Quite the reverse, I think: right now, based off of the last couple seasons, with Trouba’s offense tanking, his possession numbers tanking, his defense plummeting? If the Rangers got off with 50% salary retention and not having to give UP a good prospect and a decent draft pick to someone to take Trouba off their hands, that’d be against the odds. The only teams that would want him, I figure, are those who want a veteran leader to show the kids how it’s done.

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    • Gasu1

      11 months ago

      Regardless of his play in 2023-24, he will be owed one year’s salary less, so easier to get rid of.

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