Leading the Metropolitan Division scoreboard, the Carolina Hurricanes decided against making big moves this trade deadline. Eric Tulsky made a sole unobtrusive move by adding veteran Nicolas Deslauriers to the lineup. However, things weren’t always this quiet for the Canes: the team was once linked to a standout center of a struggling division rival.
Reason for Carolina Hurricanes’ Vincent Trocheck Move Falling Through
The New York Rangers’ season has unfolded in a fashion that has caused trade rumours to surround the team unchecked. Vincent Trocheck, who has shone bright despite the nightmarish luck that has plagued the Broadway Blue Shirts, is currently on a four-game point streak.
Trocheck is a favourite of the fans and was, until the deadline, one of the team’s most lucrative trade assets. Fortunately for the fanbase, the deadline passed rather quietly, and Trocheck emerged unscathed.
While Trocheck is still a Ranger, rumours connecting him to the Hurricanes got rather loud at one point, as Ron MacLean and Elliotte Friedman discussed in a recent episode of the Saturday Headlines. “Carolina and Trocheck, that was a hot rumour,” MacLean pointed out, to which Friedman responded, “the price was too high.”
Apparently, Tulsky could not offer the return the Rangers deemed fitting for the 32-year-old’s value.
Trocheck, who is in the fourth year of his seven-year, $39.3 million contract, had made it aptly clear that if he were changing teams, he would only want to join the ranks of a Stanley Cup contender.
“If I’m going to get traded to a team, that’s in the same situation as us, then I don’t want to move. That sounds miserable in a new city. I am 32 years old. I would like to win a Stanley Cup, so if I am going to get traded, I would like to go to a team that’s winning, or has a chance to win,” the center stated, as shared by Erik Cruikshank of The Hockey News.
Trocheck’s 12-team no-trade list offers him some control over his future in the league. Nonetheless, it is easy to believe that if not for the Canes’ unwillingness to match the Rangers’ demands, a trade to Carolina could be right up Trocheck’s alley, given the Hurricanes’ strong odds of landing the Cup this season.
Moreover, Trocheck has already spent three seasons with the Canes and is familiar with coach Rod Brind’Amour. On the other hand, the Hurricanes could have also vastly benefited from some help in their second-line center position.
