Rangers President and Normal Supervisor Chris Drury field questions forward of the 2024-25 NHL season on Tuesday, and his relationship together with his captain was nonetheless one in all them.
With the Blueshirts’ first on-ice session of coaching camp set for Thursday, Jacob Trouba is a participant to observe for a myriad of causes.
The 30-year-old defenseman is coming off a troublesome 2023-24 marketing campaign and an eventful offseason throughout which there have been rumors the rangers wanted to trade him.
“Jacob and I discuss on a regular basis, as a GM and a captain must be,” Drury mentioned when requested if there had been any talks with Trouba to iron issues out. “I’d even embrace Lavi [Peter Laviolette] in these conversations. Clearly, being the captain, he runs our dressing room and is the top of the management group. We had plenty of totally different conversations over the summer time, about lots of various things. He’s very clear about the place he stands with me and what I consider him as a participant and as a frontrunner. I feel he did a extremely good job right here.
“Being a captain, there are such a lot of transferring components that go out and in of being a captain, particularly in New York and particularly being the captain of the Rangers. I am excited to have him again, excited for coaching camp. I do know he had a terrific offseason so far as coaching goes.”
Trouba suffered a damaged ankle and missed 11 video games in March, which definitely performed a task in his lackluster play final 12 months. Nevertheless, his 2023-24 season was typically unimpressive.
Simply earlier than the playoffs, Truba was demoted to the third pair. He stayed there for a lot of the postseason, on the finish of which he led all skaters in penalties (11).
The Put up reported that Truba’s spouse, Dr. Kelly Tyson-Truba, and her residency at a New York hospital became a factor in the offseason situation. When Trouba signed his seven-year, $56 million deal in July 2019, his five-year no-movement clause was particularly designed to run out together with the completion of his spouse’s three-year residency.
With Dr. Tyson-Truba’s residency deferred for a 12 months, there was no assure that Truba would settle for a commerce even to a membership on his new 15-team, no-trade listing. The Truba household additionally welcomed their first little one, Axel, in January.
Trouba, who was named captain in August 2022, has 31 targets and 99 assists in 340 video games over 5 seasons with the Rangers.
