Long before the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, before marriage and children and the push and pull of NHL life with the New York Rangers, Vincent and Hillary Trocheck were just two kids in a 10th-grade economics class at Heritage High School in Saginaw, Michigan.
“The second I met him, it was over for me,” Hillary told Forever Blueshirts with a laugh.
Even then, she recalled, there was something magnetic about him — a mix of confidence and curiosity that drew people in.
“He was always striving to be the best he could be,” she added.