Its Trocheck’s World
If anyone is enjoying this season it is Vincent Trocheck. Gained last season in a trade with the Florida Panthers that saw Erik Haula and Lucas Wallmark, and two prospects, Chase Priskie and Eetu Luostarinen go down south. That trade felt very lopsided at the time, but you fast forward to this season and suddenly it all makes sense.
With his third and fourth goals of the season in this game, the man is about to have a breakout season like never before. Add on the fact that he also got his second apple on the Svechnikov goal and he is over a point per game.
The first goal came with some incredible moves that shows just how much lockstep he has with his new teammates:
This is called chemistry, btw pic.twitter.com/WVUBlfGUQA
— Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) January 31, 2021
That was Steven Lorentz’s first NHL point too. And instead of just celebrate the fact that he managed to jump on the defending Western Conference Champions in just four minutes into the game, he made an active effort to go and get the puck from the official so Lorentz can have that memory forever. It was a well-deserved NHL point too.
https://twitter.com/Canes/status/1355883772395352075
That is a full team player right there. Can he continue his roll into tonight’s game? We will find out. To be completely fair, it’s not very likely that he will have a similar night, but who knows. Hopefully, he has given the rest of the team a scoring bug that they will carry into the game. I hear it is very contagious.
I am still a little upset that he never got his natural hattrick. But I doubt he was worried about it last night. He did do his best to sneak another puck behind Dobby. Perhaps he will get one tonight? Here is hoping.