Why Rangers star ‘thought I was dying’ early in season, also addresses uncertain future
Remember when Vincent Trocheck missed 13 games early in the New York Rangers season due to an upper-body injury? Yeah, well, the veteran center revealed Friday at the team’s breakup day that wasn’t exactly a typical hockey injury. And it threw quite the scare into him, as well.
Thinking that he had back spasms, Trocheck played the regular-season opener on Oct. 7 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, a 3-0 loss at Madison Square Garden. Still dealing with discomfort, the 32-year-old was right back out there two nights later for a 4-0 road win at the Buffalo Sabres.
But he soon found out, these weren’t back spasms he was dealing with. It was a nasty viral infection, and it landed him in the hospital after the game in Buffalo. “I thought I was just having back spasms, and then I played the first game.
Got a little bit worse. Played in Buffalo. I got a cross-check right in that area, and whatever fluid was in there it’s like bubbles, and I guess the bubble burst and it spread.
So, then it just got a lot worse,” Trocheck explained Friday . “I had a lot of fluid around my lung, so I had to have surgery to get the fluid removed. “It was very scary.
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