There are rumors the team will be slashing payroll next year. Their GM’s future is very much in doubt. It seems like the organization has no direction, no plan, and no ideas. For a team that is exactly where many thought they’d be at this time in the season, that’s a heck of an accomplishment, and not in a good way.
Greg Wyshynski of ESPN called a winner of the trade deadline “putting it on your players,” and trading Trocheck accomplishes that for the Panthers in stark terms.