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

[NeverForget06]

trading positive value for an objectively bad player is a bad move. Trading positive value for an objectively bad player that makes $8 million/year is an objectively terrible move.

It isn't that complicated. No one said it is going to "stop" the Ducks from doing anything. It still is a horrible trade.

I have to question whether your opinion is impartial....

I don't think you can say this trade is "horrible" for Anahiem. He has one year left on his deal.

You are also ignoring the fact that they can hold onto him until the trade deadline and then move him again and recoup even more assets - either this year or next. They have the space to retain cap as well.

Trouba @ 50% retained, which they would easily be able to do, would net more positive assets for sure.

It's a horrible trade for the Devils, that I'm sure of

 

[Peltz]

Would've been closer to his wife had he waived. That dummy.

 

[MMC]

 

[895]

Little Ball of Hate Trades For Flying Elbow That Can't Skate

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

There was an entire free agency period to do this in which the ducks signed nobody.

Having a lot of cap space should not excuse you from using it poorly.

We went after Stamkos and Marchessault

 

[Jumptheshark]

Rangers just freed up a lot of money

 

[Section 104]

There's no reason for the Rangers to give a flying F where troubas wife wants to work/live

As we said in the military, they don’t issue wives and children in your sea bag. As I understand it Mrs Trouba delayed her entry into the medical school program for a year.

he gets $8 million a year. If the Troubas want sympathy, look in the dictionary.

 

[Indy18]

As a CBJ fan thank you Jacob Trouba for this!

 

[WarriorofTime]

The Ducks probably just wanted a physical, veteran, righthanded defenseman to help out Mintyukov/Zellwegger/LaCombe. The only righthanded defenseman shot they had was Radko Gudas and I guess they called up Drew Helleson so they were ultra thin at that side. His contract will be over by the time it matters. It's very low risk for them.

Of course, greedily, you'd love if NYR was sending a 2nd round pick alongside Trouba, but I guess there was some sort of market for Trouba's services. They don't care that they're bailing NYR out of their cap situation the next year and a half. They aren't the Devils or Hurricanes. That's not their problem if this gives NYR a better shot to turn it around right now.

 

[Fjordsen]

Verbeek weird

 

[Jersey Fresh]

I have to question whether your opinion is impartial....

I don't think you can say this trade is "horrible" for Anahiem. He has one year left on his deal.

You are also ignoring the fact that they can hold onto him until the trade deadline and then move him again and recoup even more assets - either this year or next. They have the space to retain cap as well.

Trouba @ 50% retained, which they would easily be able to do, would net more positive assets for sure.

It's a horrible trade for the Devils, that I'm sure of

Ignoring everything else, the guy is a bad hockey player. He's a net negative *on the ice*. Trading for a bad player is always bad if the expectation is making your team better. Crazy, I know.

 

[dgibb10]

We went after Stamkos and Marchessault

Failing in free agency, not having a backup plan beyond that, and then making a terrible trade is not making the GM look better.

"Well he had to make this f*** up because he f***ed up previously"

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Rangers probably get the better player in this deal as Urho Vaakanainen is a serviceable 7th defensive defenseman, that plays a good shot suppression game.

Vaakanainen is currently on injured reserve with an upper body injury.

 

[MMC]

I mean I get where you're coming from, but this is situation where Anaheim absolutely should have been getting a positive asset of some sort in return. The fact that they didn't even if they lost literally nothing of value is the issue here.

“Should” doesn’t really mean much when there’s a market for the player though

 

[Forge]

What part of this makes it a “terrible trade for Anaheim”? Do people think we’re going to miss our extra 4th round pick or our 7th defenseman? Do people think the $8M cap hit is going to prevent us from doing something when we had over $20M in space? Or are people just hurt that the Rangers have $8M in cap space now?

More of a better trade for the Rangers than awful trade for Anaheim is my reaction.

Trouba could easily be an upgrade for the ducks over the next two years given the state of the team, I dunno. More of a whatever trade for Anaheim imo. Plus, he may stick around. I know that sounds crazy to people, but if Trouba re-signs for like 2 x 2.3 after next season to be a third pair dman for a couple of years it wouldn't be the crazies thing.

 

[North]

We went after Stamkos and Marchessault

Only one of those guys would have been a good idea.

 

[King Woodballs]

The Rangers wanted Trouba gone so badly they literally gave him away for nothing LOL

 

[Peltz]

she's a doctor with a year left in her residency. you can't just apply for a new job in anaheim to be closer to your husband and she doesn't have the ability to take time off or work from home

The residency ends in June. It's not that bad for a couple of this level of salary.

I have a wife that also went through residency and fellowship and we survived the geographical inconveniences it brought with far less money than Trouba.

It's going to be fine for them. Sucks for their kid, but it's a few months and that kid is going to be set for life.

 

[Ragdoll]

NHL gms never fail to amaze... how a team could take Trouba and his entire 8m cap hit for this season and next without an asset attached is crazy.

Anaheim has cap space to spare, sure. But that doesn't mean you don't squeeze NY here who is very clearly in a tough spot with their cap. How did no one take advantage of NY and their situation is beyond me.

 

[Viqsi]

One thing I learned today is that being the captain of the Rangers is basically a ticket out of town. It has ended ugly for the last three players.That were named captain of this team.

Now pushing for Adam Fox for the Rangers captaincy.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Trouba will fit in well with the team that has 3rd pair defenseman Gudas as captain.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Trouba and Gudas on the blue line eh?

 

[SanDogBrewin]

LoL

 

[doomscroll]

Hopefully this move brings NHL fans one step closer to abandoning the flat-cap narrative of paying to offload a bad contract.

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

Failing in free agency, not having a backup plan beyond that, and then making a terrible trade is not making the GM look better.

"Well he had to make this f*** up because he f***ed up previously"

His back up plan was Fabbri, who has been fine.

This trade isn't half as bad as people are making it out to be, people just like to make noise online to make themselves feel important. My guess is that he is fine for a year and then gone without any last impact, negative or positive.