"Vincent Trocheck is a great player. He's been a great Ranger for us, and a leader on and off the ice. Broadly speaking to any player in the organization, as it pertains to the retool, and this trade deadline and moving forward, we're going to make deals that we think make sense. The deals we made today and leading up to this deadline, to us, made sense."
"As a righthanded-shooting center who plays a two-way game, kills penalties, plays on the power play and wins faceoffs at a 57.2% clip this season, Trocheck was always a much-desired commodity among Stanley Cup contenders. And it was thought the return for him in a potential trade would be too much for the Rangers to refuse."
The Rangers completed their deadline day with early and late trades, dealing fourth-line center Sam Carrick to Buffalo for draft picks and trading young forward Brennan Othmann to Calgary for prospect Jacob Battaglia. However, the anticipated trade of center Vincent Trocheck did not occur despite weeks of speculation. General manager Chris Drury emphasized the team would only make trades that made strategic sense during their retool phase. Trocheck, a 32-year-old two-way center with strong faceoff and penalty-killing abilities, had been considered a likely trade candidate following the team's January announcement of a retool and earlier trades of defenseman Carson Soucy and leading scorer Artemi Panarin.
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