{"id":354925,"date":"2025-11-04T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:00:14","slug":"vincent-trocheck-returns-to-rangers-practice-in-encouraging-injury-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354925\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Trocheck returns to Rangers practice in encouraging injury sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a road trip that featured a three-game winning streak<\/a>, the Rangers received some promising news at their first practice back in Tarrytown.<\/p>\n

Vincent Trocheck, on long-term injured reserve after sustaining an upper-body injury during their second game of the season, returned to practice in a red noncontact jersey Monday. He skated on his own at the facility while the Blueshirts were on the road and is eligible to return at any point \u2014 Trocheck has missed both the 10 games and the 24 days required for being on LTIR \u2014 for the Rangers, but head coach Mike Sullivan said he didn\u2019t know how close Trocheck is.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust his presence being around the group means the world,\u201d Sullivan said after practice, \u201cjust with his leadership, his energy, the fact that he joined the group today suggests that he\u2019s getting closer. It\u2019s great that he\u2019s out there with the group, but I think it helps the whole team overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RangersRangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) is defended by the Penguins\u2019 Ben Kindel on Oct. 7, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Trocheck remained on the other end of the ice as the Rangers worked on their power play and penalty kill during practice. Trocheck, who collected an assist against Buffalo before exiting, would instantly provide a jolt once he returns. He has recorded 25 and 26 goals the past two seasons, and in 2023-24 he finished with a career-best 77 points as a dependable two-way forward for the Blueshirts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

His absence also forced the Rangers to shuffle their top six early in the season. What started as Trocheck skating alongside Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re \u2014 and J.T. Miller centering Will Cuylle and Mika Zibanejad \u2014 turned into Panarin-Zibanejad-Miller and Cuylle-Noah Laba-Lafreni\u00e8re during the Blueshirts win Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, a big part of our team,\u201d said Zibanejad, who called getting Trocheck back an \u201cenergy boost\u201d for the Rangers. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to have him back. \u2026 It was awesome to see him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked why the Rangers opted to call up Jaroslav Chmelar \u2014 who has yet to make his NHL debut \u2014 Sunday instead of someone such as Brett Berard (three assists in nine games) or Gabe Perreault (five goals and 10 points through nine games), Sullivan said that Chmelar has been AHL Hartford\u2019s \u201cbest forward.\u201d The fifth-round pick in the 2021 draft has collected two goals and five points through the Wolf Pack\u2019s opening nine games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d Sullivan said of the 6-foot-4 forward, who skated with the Blueshirts on Monday. \u201cHe\u2019s played extremely well for them, and he\u2019s deserving of getting the call-up \u2014 and that\u2019s why he\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s a great message for everybody. Performance matters. It matters in practice. It matters in the games, whether you\u2019re in New York or you\u2019re in Hartford.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan also said he talked with Brennan Othmann \u2014 sent to Hartford in a corresponding move after logging one game with the Rangers on their recent road trip \u2014 about attention to detail and the subtleties of his game, while acknowledging that it\u2019s better for Othmann\u2019s development to log consistent AHL minutes as opposed to getting scratched with the Rangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little bit of predictability, reliability with respect to his game away from the puck,\u201d Sullivan said of Othmann, \u201cand that being an important element of him earning his way on the roster as a regular. [Othmann] has NHL skill, without a doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defenseman Urho Vaakanainen, who skated 12:34 against Seattle on Saturday, didn\u2019t practice due to a lower-body injury and is day to day. \u2026 The Rangers recalled defenseman Connor Mackey from Hartford and are placing Matt Rempe, who\u2019s expected to be out \u201clonger term\u201d with an upper-body injury, on injured reserve, according to The Post\u2019s Mollie Walker.<\/p>\n

K\u2019Andre Miller, who was traded to the Hurricanes in July, will likely have to wait to make his Garden return. Carolina head coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour told reporters he doesn\u2019t think Miller \u2014 on IR with a lower-body injury but eligible to return \u2014 will travel to New York City with the team, according to the North State Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a road trip that featured a three-game winning streak, the Rangers received some promising news at their…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":354926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1302,293,62,67,132,68,80412],"class_list":{"0":"post-354925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-new-york-rangers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115491322479226830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}