New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck is out week to week with an upper-body injury sustained in Thursday’s 4-0 win against the Buffalo Sabres, the Rangers announced Saturday morning. The injury takes away one of New York’s most versatile players who can play in the team’s top six.
Trocheck has one assist in two games this season. He has been a frequent center for wingers Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafrenière the past two seasons and has had at least 59 points all three of his years in New York. He played in the 2024 All-Star Game and finished the 2023-24 season with 25 goals and 77 points.
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With Trocheck out, Mika Zibanejad moved back to center at Saturday’s morning skate in Pittsburgh. Zibanejad had started the year on J.T. Miller’s right wing — something both players said they wanted going into the year. Now he’s taking Trocheck’s spot with Panarin and Lafrenière.
With no Trocheck, #NYR lines are:
Panarin – Zibanejad – Laf
Cuylle – Miller – Sheary
Pärssinen – Laba – Raddysh
Edström – Carrick – Rempe— Vince Z. Mercogliano (@vzmercogliano) October 11, 2025
Conor Sheary skated on Miller’s wing at morning skate, and Juuso Pärssinen took his spot on the third line. Pärssinen is set to make his season debut.
The Rangers are not calling up one of their young forwards from AHL Hartford yet. They have only $842,000 in cap space, according to PuckPedia, which is less than any of the cap hits of Brett Berard, Gabe Perreault and Brennan Othmann. The team could put Trocheck on long-term injured reserve to create space, but that would mean he has to miss 10-plus games or 24 days. It would also prevent the team from accruing cap space if it exceeded the salary-cap ceiling, which it would do if any of the young forwards came up.
At least, for Saturday’s game against the Penguins — and potentially for more time after — New York is comfortable not making a roster move and carrying 13 healthy forwards. Jonny Brodzinski is set to be the healthy scratch Saturday.
Aside from using LTIR, the only other way for the Rangers to create enough cap space for a call-up is to place a player such as Pärssinen or Brodzinski on waivers. That comes with the risk of any other team being able to claim them and losing organizational depth at center, which is already being tested with Trocheck out.
In Trocheck’s absence, Lafrenière skated on the top power-play unit Saturday morning with Adam Fox, Panarin, Zibanejad and Miller.
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