New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba finally broke his silence on the endless trade rumors that dominated his offseason, speaking on the eve of training camp on Thursday via The Athletic .

Jacob Trouba said “there’s no animosity” toward the Rangers after an offseason when his name was mentioned in trade rumors.

Asked if his feelings were hurt seeing his name in trade rumors, the Rangers captain said, “Not even a little bit.”

New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba is entering the 2024–25 season knowing it might be the last shot for this group to win a Stanley Cup, and he shared that take ahead of training camp on September 19, via The Athletic.

TARRYTOWN - If you ask Jacob Trouba − which a group of reporters most certainly did following Thursday's opening session of Rangers' training camp at the MSG Training Center − nothing that went down this summer took him by surprise.

The New York Rangers came close to returning to the Stanley Cup Final last season, starting with a Round 1 sweep of the Washington Capitals and a hard-fought seven-game series win over the Carolina Hurricanes.

Standing in front of his locker inside MSG Training Center, after the Rangers’ first official on-ice session of training camp on Thursday, Jacob Trouba proclaimed that his summer was great. He took some nice trips.