Confirmed with Link: Jacob Trouba traded to Anaheim Ducks for Urho vaakanainen and 4th Round conditional pick

[gump116]

Yeah, he was an issue the second his name popped up. No self reflection on how shitty he played. Came into the season and looked worse.

Thank god he is off this team. Gotta love the entitlement.

Exactly. No accountability or self awareness right until the end. Awful player, worse captain

 

[Gordon Bombay]

I cannot stress enough how unlikeable the core of this team is. Good god F right off Jake, your dog is the only cool thing about you

 

[McRanger92]

I cannot stress enough how unlikeable the core of this team is. Good god F right off Jake, your dog is the only cool thing about you

Drury isnt done with the purge. I think the vets are on borrowed time but their exits will be swifter if morale doesnt improve.

 

[SixGoalieSystem]

I have no problem with those comments from Trouba. It's fine for him to not feel great about the way things went down, and voice those feelings after the fact.

Still very much pleased that he is gone.

 

[nyr2k2]

Dang

The part about him making a decision for his family, I buy that as legitimate and I don't hold that part against him.

The rest is him just being a whiny bitch and not holding himself accountable for being both an awful player and terrible leader, which is what precipitated all of this.

 

[Captain Monglobster]

Im even happier hes gone after his post trade comments. NYC media will eat you alive. Its not easy being Captain of the New York Rangers seems like he wasnt cut out for it.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

By the way, he absolutely has a right to be pissed that (presumably) the team hung him out to dry and leaked the stuff about his wife’s residency being the reason he nixed a potential deal.

Put a unnecessary target on his families back by the fans

 

[Irishguy42]

Dang

My wife is in the medical pipeline (current doctor; in fellowship now).

Her/Trouba's wife's career is more important than anything. She has a more important career than Trouba's NHL career, salary be damned. I support her 100% no matter what it does for my career. It's that important.

Once you get into the medical SO life-style, it just hits different, and haters can f*** themselves.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

All this Trouba drama is because he has been playing terrible for 2-3 years

 

[Cmox]

I don't like him blaming his play on what happened this summer. do you not remember the playoffs?

 

[Machinehead]

This was obviously an untenable situation, so it's good that's over.

 

[Vitto79]

Vakk is a LHD. Maybe Lindgren's replacement

We can crap on Lindgren but you can’t compare him to this dude . He’s close to waivers more than being in a teams top 4

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

This was obviously an untenable situation, so it's good that's over.

RIP to Donny pics

 

[bouds]

I have no problem with those comments from Trouba. It's fine for him to not feel great about the way things went down, and voice those feelings after the fact.

Still very much pleased that he is gone.

Yeah, feel the same way. Nothing really wrong with what he said. Drury has 0 finesse too, guy wields a meat clever instead of scalpel.

 

[Jumptheshark]

How the hell did you guys dump Trouba without either adding "sugar" or retention? GM brought his A game for this

 

[Machinehead]

RIP to Donny pics

We still play Anaheim twice a year

 

[Atax]

Trouba pretending as if he didn't take more money instead of the NMC/Waiver protection. Whatever dude. You know what would have stopped this from happening? You playing at an NHL level.

 

[Mogo]

Who's the next Rangers captain?

 

[tomobson]

The man was cooked. I don't know why Drury didn't trade him in the offseason. I doubt all the wife stuff was enough of a sob story from a 8 mill a year player to stop him. Either way, Trouba got a chance to stay in NYC and completely blew it.

 

[n8]

Dang

Not blaming anyone is the same as not taking responsibility for anything.

 

[Gordon Bombay]

Drury isnt done with the purge. I think the vets are on borrowed time but their exits will be swifter if morale doesnt improve.

Hope you're right. Drury has kind of opened up a box that can't close, which I'm perfectly fine with, so he better keep going at this

 

[Daves a mess]

Trouba exercised the contractual rights he earned, and made Drury play by his terms over the summer. Check.

Drury in return used his rights to respond accordingly today. Checkmate.

 

[n8]

My wife is in the medical pipeline (current doctor; in fellowship now).

Her/Trouba's wife's career is more important than anything. She has a more important career than Trouba's NHL career, salary be damned. I support her 100% no matter what it does for my career. It's that important.

Once you get into the medical SO life-style, it just hits different, and haters can f*** themselves.

I feel you. Can Trouba not support his SO from Anaheim? Or Detroit or wherever? It's not like he doesn't have the means to support her. He basically bought his family 6 extra months fully together so it has to be worth it for him but even if he accepted a trade, it means his wife finishes her residency in a long distance relationship. That's not ideal but Trouba makes it sound like it's 100% one or the other. Like he isn't already on the road for like 40-50% of the year already.

 

[Atax]

Trouba exercised the contractual rights he earned, and made Drury play by his terms over the summer. Check.

Drury in return used his rights to respond accordingly today. Checkmate.

Yep. That's exactly it. Anything else is just cope.

 

[Irishguy42]

I feel you. Can Trouba not support his SO from Anaheim? Or Detroit or wherever? It's not like he doesn't have the means to support her. He basically bought his family 6 extra months fully together so it has to be worth it for him but even if he accepted a trade, it means his wife finishes her residency in a long distance relationship. That's not ideal but Trouba makes it sound like it's 100% one or the other. Like he isn't already on the road for like 40-50% of the year already.

The mental support alone for a medical residency is undeniable, and I can't imagine doing a long-distance medical residency, financials and physical support aside. It is very stressful to go through, and I do not think it's healthy/worthwhile for anyone to go through even a year of it (even if I don't know her hospital system or workload).