Chris Drury addresses relationship with Jacob Trouba after dramatic offseason full of Rangers trade rumors
NY Post
Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury fielded questions ahead of the 2024-25 NHL season on Tuesday, and his relationship with his captain was still one of them.
With the first on-ice session of the Blueshirts training camp set for Thursday, Jacob Trouba is a player to watch for a myriad of reasons.
The 30-year-old defenseman is coming off a tough 2023-24 campaign and an eventful offseason, during which there were rumors the Rangers were looking to trade him.
“Jacob and I talk all the time, as GM and captain should,” Drury said when asked if there were conversations with Trouba to smooth things over. “I would even include [Peter Laviolette] in those conversations. Obviously, being captain, he runs our dressing room and is head of the leadership group. We’ve had a number of different conversations over the course of the summer, on a lot of different things. He is very clear as to where he stands with me and what I think of him as a player and as a leader. I think he’s done a real good job here.
“As a captain, there’s so many moving parts that go in and out of being captain, especially in New York and especially the Rangers captain. Excited to have him back, excited for training camp. I know he had a terrific offseason, training wise.”
Trouba suffered a broken ankle and missed 11 games in March, which certainly played a role in his poor play down the stretch of last year. His 2023-24 season as a whole, however, was underwhelming.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.