Rangers’ Vincent Trocheck out week-to-week with upper-body injury
The New York Rangers will be without one of their best players for the foreseeable future.
Forward Vincent Trocheck will be out week-to-week with an upper-body injury, the team told reporters on Saturday.
Vincent Trocheck is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, per #NYR
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Trocheck suffered the injury Thursday in the Rangers’ 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.