Jacob Trouba, head-hunter at large.
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At a MINIMUM, Trouba better get fined a sizable chunk of change after the Rangers’ season ends.
That dirtiest thing is the way he drives elbow after his hit. He makes contact first the follows through. The Rangers seem like they are teaching their players to target the head of players after the initial contact.
👍 Totally agree
Trouba <in addition to leading with the elbow> launches himself <leaves his skates> in his efforts to decapitate. The announcers wont say what is plain for all to see. The best they can say is that 'trouba extended himself'. or the most hilarious comment 'the two players came together'. There are some real knuckle draggers announcing the games too which doesnt help the cause.
I think that Trouba either has his own technique or is being taught that the way to hit a guy in the head and get away with it is to aim for their upper chest just under their head but then to follow through and drive up into the chin and head area. That way you can hit the guy in the head and take them out but if its looked at people will say that the primary point of contact was the chest and that it was accidental or something and was just a good hard legal hockey hit. Then of course there are the blatant hits where he is obviously just straight up targeting the head and isn’t even trying to hide it because he knows he has the green light from his coach and the NHL.
It’s a sad joke at this point
What's dirtier? Jacob Trouba's hits or the league's reaction?
The most disgusting thing is how Sportsnet kept calling Trouba a "physical guy with monster hits" and never addressing his chicken wing head hits
Didn't think in a million years I would be a Bolts fan, but sure, Trouba did it.
Someone needs to sit him down by whatever means necessary.
Praying to God that its not a Penguin who gets their career ended by Trouba. Sucks they're in our division and we have to play them regularly…
Always spot on DK. Pathetic on all accounts by the league. Only league who doesn't care about safety. But that's what you get when you hire the biggest Goons that ever laced them up. That still shouldn't matter…
The NHL wanted to increase skill and scoring for how long now? A good 20 years? Adding the trapezoid, removing the 2 line passing rule, adding these obstruction penalties, and much more. And they FINALLY have what they wanted. A potent, high octane, skilled, fast teams who play every night… and who are competitive and a bottom feeder can beat the best team in tb the league on a given night. See Buffalo for context.
And all this can be seen on ESPN NOW!! Look at all the playoff teams. Almost every single one is just so skilled, and fast, and fun to watch. But it's going to get ruined by guys like Trouba & Wilson.. (and what's worse for Trouba is even Wilson stopped most of the shaningans this year. And looked like a legit top 6 winger!)
Incredible that this game is so badly mismanaged. All of us here… that realize this is the best playoff of any sport… and it's not even close. And for it to ruined by mismanagement. Really sucks to be a hockey fan when we've made soooo much progress…
So happy Trouba got beat on the game wining goal in game six against Tampa. Now the Rangers can go home and suck on that L.