Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 19, 2024, 01:21 PM ET
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba said there isn’t “any animosity” with management after offseason reports that the team was trying to trade him.
Trouba, 30, has two years left on a seven-year contract that carries a cap hit of $8 million. His contract shifted from a full no-movement clause to a partial 15-team no-trade clause on July 1. Multiple reports indicated that the Rangers asked Trouba for his no-trade list while he still had a full no-movement clause, an indication that they were trying to trade him.
“I don’t think there was any animosity throughout the whole thing. Per my contract, I owe the list to them on June 30th. I knew that was coming. I think that’s a pretty standard part of contracts when a no-trade list has to be submitted. There’s a date that has to be done by. It’s just standard contract business,” said Trouba, speaking at the start of Rangers training camp Thursday.
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Rangers general manager Chris Drury said this week that communication with Trouba has been good.
“We’ve had a number of different conversations over the course of the summer, on a lot of different things. He is very clear as to where he stands with me and what I think of him as a player and as a leader,” he said.
Trouba expressed frustration about the speculation surrounding his future with the Rangers, saying “there’s a lot of things that were said and snowballed.” He mentioned media reports about his wife, Dr. Kelly Tyson-Trouba, and how her residency at a New York hospital might have impacted potential trade destinations. Trouba cited her medical career as a factor in accepting a trade to the Rangers from the Winnipeg Jets in 2019.
“People just run with random things. I’d love to find someone to verify a source. That would be nice. But that’s not the standard, I guess, in media. So we’ll leave it with that,” he said.
Trouba said he wanted to…
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Author : Greg Wyshynski
Publish date : 2024-09-19 18:38:42
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