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Vincent Trocheck
New York Rangers Center
26 goals, 7 game-winners and 6 shorthanded goals at 21:06 a night, from a 5-11 centre of 32.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | FLA | 20 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 13.2 | 18:53 |
| 2014-15 | FLA | 50 | 7 | 15 | 22 | +9 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 7.9 | 14:00 |
| 2015-16 | FLA | 76 | 25 | 28 | 53 | +15 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 174 | 14.4 | 17:46 |
| 2016-17 | FLA | 82 | 23 | 31 | 54 | -13 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 230 | 10.0 | 20:50 |
| 2017-18 | FLA | 82 | 31 | 44 | 75 | -9 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 287 | 10.8 | 21:22 |
| 2018-19 | FLA | 55 | 10 | 24 | 34 | -9 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 158 | 6.3 | 19:40 |
| 2019-20 | FLA/CAR | 62 | 11 | 27 | 38 | -8 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 141 | 7.8 | 16:44 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 47 | 17 | 26 | 43 | -3 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 123 | 13.8 | 18:14 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 81 | 21 | 30 | 51 | +21 | 78 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 168 | 12.5 | 17:52 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 82 | 22 | 42 | 64 | +3 | 58 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 225 | 9.8 | 19:19 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 82 | 25 | 52 | 77 | +16 | 55 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 215 | 11.6 | 21:27 |
| 2024-25 | NYR | 82 | 26 | 33 | 59 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 202 | 12.9 | 21:06 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 801 | 223 | 355 | 578 | +11 | 529 | 63 | 14 | 34 | 2050 | 10.9 | 19:12 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
26 goals and 33 assists in all 82 games — 59 points, even, at 21:06 a night, the heaviest forward workload on the club.
7 game-winning goals and 6 shorthanded goals, the latter among the most in the league. 48.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 34th percentile, across 1,196 minutes, with the on-ice goals 35-48 against an expectation of 49.05-52.47 — a bad chance share and a worse result, in the hardest minutes on the roster.
The Finesse Game
He has removed the perimeter from his game. 43 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 22, and 16 per cent from beyond 40, which is a shot chart belonging to a man ten years younger and forty pounds heavier.
The hands are good in tight and the release is quick, and 26 goals at 12.9 per cent is what that produces. The passing is a genuine second skill rather than a courtesy — 355 career assists — and it is why he can carry a line that cannot finish.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 187 and he plays a great deal heavier. He wins draws, he goes to the front of the net against men who outweigh him by forty pounds, and he does not get moved off a puck easily for his size.
44 penalty minutes and a long career total of 529 says the edge is real and occasionally expensive. He is an irritant by design: he talks, he finishes late, and he draws the retaliation more often than he takes it.
The Intangibles
Twelve seasons, 801 games, 578 points, and a third-round pick who has outplayed his draft position every year since he was 22.
He takes the defensive-zone draw, he kills penalties, he plays 21 minutes at 32, and 6 shorthanded goals is a specific and unusual skill. This is the most reliable player on the roster and the one whose contract will look worst in three years.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,196 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 68th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 48 against. Expected: 49.0 and 52.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 52 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 496 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1196 minutes at five-on-five
- Will Cuylle14%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,196 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artemi Panarin | 51.3% | 38.5% | 48.4% |
| Alexis Lafrenière | 49.6% | 45.3% | 48.2% |
| Adam Fox | 50.5% | 46.9% | 55.4% |
51.3% together, 38.5% for him apart and 48.4% for Panarin apart. He was worse away from Panarin, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Panarin did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
316 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.