Rangers place Vincent Trocheck on LTIR with upper-body injury

The New York Rangers placed forward Vincent Trocheck on long-term injured reserve (LTIR) with an upper-body injury on Wednesday.

The news comes days after the Rangers announced Trocheck would be out week-to-week. New York placing him on LTIR means he cannot return to the lineup for both 10 regular-season games and 24 days.

Trocheck suffered the injury during the Rangers’ Oct. 9 game against the Buffalo Sabres and did not return. In 7:48 of ice time, he recorded one shot and one assist on an Alexis Lafreniere goal. New York won 4-0. 

In 2024-25, Trocheck scored 26 goals and recorded 33 assists for 59 points. Now in his fourth season with the Rangers, Trocheck has 73 goals and 128 assists for 201 points in 248 regular-season games. He’s also appeared in 23 playoff games in New York, scoring nine goals and 12 assists for 21 points.

In 13 NHL seasons, the 32-year-old Trocheck has 223 goals and 356 assists for 579 points in 803 career regular-season games with the Rangers, Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers. He also has 17 goals and 20 assists for 37 points in 56 career Stanley Cup Playoff games. 

Trocheck has hit the 70-point mark twice: in 2023-24 with the Rangers, recording a career-high 77 points, and in 2017-18 with the Panthers, finishing with 75, as well as a career-high 31 goals. 

He also spent parts of two seasons in the AHL with the Panthers’ minor-league affiliate, San Antonio Rampage, scoring 24 goals and recording 37 assists for 61 points in 78 regular-season games. 

Taken in the third round by the Panthers in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Trocheck, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., spent four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Saginaw Spirit and Plymouth Whalers. In 264 regular-season games, he scored 120 goals and 179 assists for 299 points.

The Rangers are 2-3-0 through the first five games of the 2025-26 regular season. They will travel across the border to face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.