When the Carolina Hurricanes faceoff with the Florida Panthers Wednesday night in PNC Arena, it’ll be a reunion for one of the Canes’ hottest players, Vincent Trocheck.
Trocheck spent six and a half seasons with the Panthers before being dealt to the Hurricanes on last February’s trade deadline, and Wednesday night will be his first game against the team that drafted him back in 2011 as the Canes and Panthers square off for the first of eight meetings this season.
Trocheck, who was an All-Star for the Panthers back in 2017 and had a 75-point season for Florida in 2017-18, is playing some of the best hockey of his career to start the shortened 2021 campaign, with 13 points in 12 games played.