The Rangers need Jacob Trouba. Jacob Trouba needs the Rangers. This is a marriage that likely isn’t ending any time soon. Yet Trouba has been far from worth his contract, and the Rangers are stuck paying him $8 million a year to be mediocre. Once Jack Johnson is gone next season, all eyes will be on Trouba as the whipping boy. It’s time to put Jacob Trouba in a position to succeed with the proper partner.
There are two schools of thought here. The first is to put Tony DeAngelo on his left side, which solves the DeAngelo/third pair issue.