New York Rangers leader react to Jacob Trouba's trade to the Anaheim Ducks
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Vincent Trocheck, one of the leaders of the New York Rangers, reacted to Jacob Trouba's trade to the Anaheim Ducks in an interview.
While most fans and analysts were anticipating that the New York Rangers would trade their captain Jacob Trouba this season, it still created an important commotion in the team's locker room, due to the circumstances.
Trouba was extremely appreciated by his teammates, and even if it was a "business decision", his departure stings.
The Rangers were in action last night against the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Trouba's former teammate Vincent Trocheck shed light on the locker room's mindset after that big change.
Without any surprises, he talked about how he considers Trouba to be his "brother", that the organization sent a message to the player with that move, and that it's tough for the team.
Read his full comments here:
"Every team you go to, you build relationships with everybody on the team, and you become - as cliche as it sounds, you become brothers with these guys and it's always tough to see anybody go.
Troubs I've known for a long time, and for him to go as one of the big leaders on our team - it's always tough. It was a tough morning, obviously, and we knew we had to come in here tonight and really show up.
I don't know if it's intended to send a message, but obviously it does. Whenever your captain gets traded, it just kind of sets the precedent that if you don't produce, you don't win games, that management has to do something to change it up, and it could be any of us.
It sends a little bit of a message and we have to make sure that we're coming each night now - not that we didn't before.
He's not going to - I don't want to speak for Jacob, but he's not going to come to the rink and show that. He cares so much and he didn't want to let it slip into the team, but you can imagine, right?
When you're in one of the biggest hockey markets in the league, you're the captain, and those kinds of rumors are out there - it's got to be extremely tough to put on a brave face, I guess you could say, and come to the rink and be that leader.
It's tough for all of us - when we're not the captain of the team, to come to the rink whenever we're going through a slump - when we're losing six out of seven. It's always tough to come to the rink and have that energy and have that confidence and all of that, so you could only imagine what it would be like for him.
There's been a cloud over our heads for a little while. When you lose games, that's what happens. It takes wins like this, and more passion, emotion, out of everybody to get rid of that."
Troubs I've known for a long time, and for him to go as one of the big leaders on our team - it's always tough. It was a tough morning, obviously, and we knew we had to come in here tonight and really show up.
I don't know if it's intended to send a message, but obviously it does. Whenever your captain gets traded, it just kind of sets the precedent that if you don't produce, you don't win games, that management has to do something to change it up, and it could be any of us.
It sends a little bit of a message and we have to make sure that we're coming each night now - not that we didn't before.
He's not going to - I don't want to speak for Jacob, but he's not going to come to the rink and show that. He cares so much and he didn't want to let it slip into the team, but you can imagine, right?
When you're in one of the biggest hockey markets in the league, you're the captain, and those kinds of rumors are out there - it's got to be extremely tough to put on a brave face, I guess you could say, and come to the rink and be that leader.
It's tough for all of us - when we're not the captain of the team, to come to the rink whenever we're going through a slump - when we're losing six out of seven. It's always tough to come to the rink and have that energy and have that confidence and all of that, so you could only imagine what it would be like for him.
There's been a cloud over our heads for a little while. When you lose games, that's what happens. It takes wins like this, and more passion, emotion, out of everybody to get rid of that."
In the Rangers' first game without Trouba, the team won 4-2 against the Penguins. The team will be back to it tomorrow, to face the Seattle Kraken at the Madison Square Garden.
It'll be interesting to see if the Rangers can keep building momentum without a captain over the coming months.
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DECEMBRE 7 | 127 ANSWERS New York Rangers leader react to Jacob Trouba's trade to the Anaheim Ducks After the Jacob Trouba trade, do you think the New York Rangers will name a new captain this season? | ||
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| No | 69 | 54.3 % |
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