Confirmed Trade: [ANA/NYR] Jacob Trouba for Urho Vaakanainen and 2025 4th round pick

[K Fleur]

Rangers getting rid of that shitty contract is crazy.

Wouldn’t expect much Ducks fans, this dude is ass.

 

[BMOK33]

Trouba is probably retiring when this contract is up or at the end of the season

 

[SML2]

Why did Verbeek make this trade?

Live footage of the contents of a package addressed to the Ducks front office marked "Jacob Trouba's hockey gear, Attn: Ducks Owner guy"

 

[Il Stugotz]

So he vetoed trades to Columbus and Detroit but accepts trade to Anaheim, is staying close to his wife and toddler important to him or not? I am confused.

Looks like he was trying to get as far away as possible

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

So he would go to Anaheim but not Columbus? I mean Columbus is significantly closer to NY.

 

[GordonGraham]

What a slap in the face to Trouba. They literally sent him as far as possible from NY. Poor guy will never see his wife and family.

Good hockey wife should stay at home supporting her man and taking care of the kids if they have any, no need to work

 

[mphmiles]

Detroit gave up a 2nd to get the Sharks to take a better defenseman making less than half the salary of Trouba last season.

The Rangers got assets back for Trouba. How does this make any sense?

 

[Leonardo87]

WHAT THE f***.

You mean What the Duck!

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Should've just sucked it up and accepted the trade to Detroit sucks brother but that's life, enjoy making 8 mil a year.

I mean, in non-hockey terms, I'd much rather live in Anaheim than Detroit (and I do like Detroit, FWIW - my wife is from there).

So he would go to Anaheim but not Columbus? I mean Columbus is significantly closer to NY.

But then he'd have to live in Ohio.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Thanks Ducks for saving our season I shall patronize you by buying on extra beer next time I go to your building

 

[Guy Larose]

Trouba is probably retiring when this contract is up or at the end of the season

His wife tell you that? He's not forfeiting $8M

 

[Matti_A]

Big Vaak is a solid get for the Rangers

 

[Forge]

So he vetoed trades to Columbus and Detroit but accepts trade to Anaheim, is staying close to his wife and toddler important to him or not? I am confused.

Apparently not. If he's cool with Anaheim, good for him. Maybe it was always just talk

 

[BrockLobster]

I can sort of understand this from the Ducks. With the cap going up and multiple players on ELC's, they're going to have cap space up the wazoo. Like, even after this and a couple RFA signings, you're still looking at 20 million next summer.

Not sure how much they're willing to spend in free agency. Trouba is signed for just 1 more year. Helps not having to worry about cap floor.

It still makes no sense

 

[Vipers31]

So he vetoed trades to Columbus and Detroit but accepts trade to Anaheim, is staying close to his wife and toddler important to him or not? I am confused.

It’s been a while and I don’t know how accurate it was in the first place, but I believe I read something in the summer about Anaheim being in the vicinity of one of the few hospitals his wife could reasonably transfer to.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

I'm hearing that the Blue Jackets would've traded Sillinger and Fantilli for Trouba for Trouba, but Trouba blocked the trade.



Of course I made that up

 

[AirGut]

Does anyone actually know what CBJ offered?

 

[Forge]

You were 1 of 1 in New York, Trouba

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Trouba is probably retiring when this contract is up or at the end of the season

He's signed for the season after this one. Unlikely he'll walk away from millions of dollars...

His wife tell you that? He's not forfeiting $8M

His total salary for '25-26 is 6M, but your point still stands.

 

[BMOK33]

His wife tell you that? He's not forfeiting $8M

When you've made as much as he already has not sure if you have a choice of finishing the contract and being miserable or not able to play to the level you once were is worth it.

 

[le_sean]

Drury did well here. Can’t believe teams are still helping the Rangers

 

[stats1]

The other thread got locked, but I'll repeat what I said there....

Trouba has to be furious, right? Wife is still a Dr in NY and that was one of the key reasons for the original move to NY? And they just had a baby earlier this year?

Dude this is professional sports. He gets paid a lot of money to play a game. The Rangers aren’t obligated to do anything other than making the team better. How many times we gotta hear “but his wife is a doctor in NY” who cares! They’ll figure it out

 

[AirGut]

You were 1 of 1 in New York, Trouba

KINO

 

[One Winged Angel]

Addition by subtraction. Trouba is so bad. A big part of NYR’s failure against FLA was the fact that Trouba is so slow and can’t win 50/50 races for puck retrievals and it led to NYR being hemmed in their own zone.

If that’s not bad enough, he’s running around out of position trying to throw hits.

I’ve literally never seen a defenseman go completely out to the boards to throw a hit on the penalty kill in OT when the puck carrier has clean possession of the puck. Then Trouba came along and it cost the Rangers an ECF game.

One of the worst trades in the cap era for the Rangers.

 

[tmg]

He had a 15 team NTC. Has it been confirmed he actually waived for this, or is it possible this was one of the teams he simply didn’t have on his list?