Wifes hospital residency among factors keeping Jacob Trouba with Rangers
The captain of the New York Rangers is Jacob Trouba and may very well remain so for the foreseeable future.The anticipated trade to Detroit did not materialize after No.8 handed in his 15-team no-trade list to GM Chris Drury as due on Monday.
Sources now report that the deal as depicted in this space on Saturday with the Blueshirts retaining $2.5 million of Trouba’s annual $8M cap charge the next two years was not on the table.We are told that the suggestion Trouba rejected the deal is not true.Monday’s first day of free agency came and went without the Rangers shoring up their defense.
Indeed, the club lost incumbent sixth defenseman Erik Gustafsson to, well, the Red Wings for a two-year deal at $2M a year.Zac Jones moves up the depth chart to that third-pair spot on the left.Other defensemen who might have filled the blue line void left by Trouba’s hypothetical departure went off the board quickly.
Chris Tanev and Oliver Ekman-Larsson went to Toronto.Brett Pesce and Brenden Dillon signed with the Devils.
Nikita Zadorov joined the Bruins.If the Rangers press to move Trouba in order to clear a substantial amount of cap space, they would have to find a replacement via the trade market for which the club has few available, valued assets.The team has no one in the pipeline ready to step in for top-six minutes.There is, The Post has learned, another factor in the equation that might keep the 30-year-old on Broadway for a longer spell.When Trouba signed this current seven-year, $56M contract in July of 2019 after having been acquired as a pending restricted free agent from Winnipeg, his five-year no-movement clause was designed to expire in conjunction with his wife Kelly Tyson-Trouba’s completion of her three-year residency at a New York hospital.But Dr.
Tyson-Trouba’s residency was deferred for a year at the start so that the program which she is required to complete will end instead on July 1, 2025.The Troubas also welcomed their first child, a boy nam...