Offical trade call with the league hasn't happened yet, so still pending that approval, but it will be defenseman Urho Vaakanainen and a fourth-round pick to the Rangers for Trouba. <br>Ducks take on full Trouba contract. No salary retained by Rangers.
New York Rangers
We're going to need more space to dedicate a fair analysis of what went wrong for Jacob Trouba in New York. The short version is that his game completely plummeted and the Rangers miscast him as a shutdown defenseman. Trouba may throw the occasional monster hit, but his footwork, decision-making and positioning did not lend well to someone expected to play a lot of minutes.