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

[Coffey]

Panarin better keep his head up the next time he’s at the pond.

 

[BergyWho37]

What a Quack Pat Verbeek is..

Gives NYR cap space for free

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Who is the other 4th originally from?

 

[AvroArrow]

So the Ducks just took on that contract for free ? Horrible trade. Should have gotten a pick or prospect along with him, Rangers big W

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Drury Houdini's his way out of another contract.

Igor 8x$17M per incoming

 

[Emperoreddy]

That's a slam dunk trade for the Rangers. Absolutely fleeced the Ducks.

Trouba is beyond washed. His contract is awful and he had the Rangers over the barrel with his No trade list.

Yet the Ducks give up assets to take his entire contract. Anaheim is not a serious organization and every GM should be trying to further fleece Verbeek into taking on their garbage.

 

[Muffin]

Wow Trouba actually had positive value without retention?

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

No retention is a huge break for the Rangers. Why be good at your job when other GMs can just be worse?

 

[MMC]

Who is the other 4th originally from?

Detroit

 

[dgibb10]

The cap hit is irrelevant to Anaheim.
Trouba - while definitely Trouba - is still serviceable enough as a vet and leader for a team that is still young and receptive to some insulation.

There is a place called free agency where you can find serviceable dman without giving up assets and 8 mill a year as well.

If Anaheim needed a serviceable dman they should have signed more than 0 free agents

 

[Voodoo Child]

Trouba's wife is still in medical school?

What the hell is she studying, how to raise the dead?

 

[FlyguyOX]

He makes 8 million a year he can see them anytime he wants.

Ah yeah just a quick 11 hour round trip flight in between his game and practice schedule. NO BIGGIE

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

Surprised by the reaction in here. I think people would be surprised by how many GM's would take Trouba on their team.

Anaheim didn't give up much, they get a hard nosed defenseman & leader to help with their young group. Only 1 more year left on his deal after this one, so its not like its a long term contract at this point.

HF isn’t real life. In HF world, no gm wants anyone and late 1st round picks are worth more than McDavid

 

[CokenoPepsi]

He gets to enjoy much better weather.

What are the tax implications for him?

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Yeah, Trouba was definitely the sole reason you suck lol

We'll have your Metro spot by the end of February now that this bullshit is handled.

Enjoy it while you can

 

[ShakenNotStirred]

League low in points and league high in suspensions. Sounds good

Could you imagine a worst case scenario where both of them go caveman on you at the same time. Gudas plows your legs out with one of his low hip checks and trouba hits you with his signature elbow strike or heat seeking human missile moves.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

If someone had told Ducks fans in the early-mid 2010s that in the future they'd have Fowler-Trouba patrolling the blueline, I would bet they'd be so excited.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Trouba's wife is still in medical school?

What the hell is she studying, how to raise the dead?

I think it's a good thing that they make doctors study and learn for a long time before they can experiment on people's bodies, don't you?

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

I should've known that the meatball dunces known as NHL GMs still coveted Trouba and other "hard-to-play-against" players in certain corners. This is why the Rangers keep getting these ridiculous bailouts for players that they should pay assets to go away.

 

[sxvnert]

The entire 8m owed to Trouba next season will be given to Shesterkin.

 

[uncleben]

There is a place called free agency where you can find serviceable dman without giving up assets and 8 mill a year as well.

If Anaheim needed a serviceable dman they should have signed more than 0 free agents

You don't think Oscar Dansk, Jansen Harkins, Carson Meyer, and Tomas Suchanek was the steal of the off-season?

 

[MXD]

Can Trouba report for a few games and scram to NYC just to not get tolled?

 

[Frank Drebin]

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?

He could always try find something local

 

[Leonardo87]

After Leo Carlsson got pushed into the net and Zegras Slewfooted . This needed to happen. Trouba on the team, opposing teams goons will think twice about going after the Ducks kids.

He just has to hit the crap out of everyone.

 

[Terry Yake]

you can get what you're describing for a lot cheaper than 8 million

if you think the cap means anything to the ducks right now, you are very wrong