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NEW YORK, NY – Jacob Trouba is enjoying life as a new dad!

While speaking to PEOPLE at the opening of his first solo art exhibit at Harper’s Chelsea 512 in Manhattan, the New York Rangers captain — who welcomed a son with his wife, Kelly Tyson, in January — says fatherhood has changed his ideas about “what’s important.”

“It’s been great,” Trouba, 30, says. “There’s no real playbook that you can read — I mean, you can kind of prepare a little bit, but it’s very much learning on the fly.”

When Trouba and his wife welcomed baby Axel at the start of the year, the hockey star was in the middle of one of the Rangers’ best seasons in years. The team would later fall just shy of making the Stanley Cup Finals in June, giving Trouba a break from regular practices until training camp begins in September — and plenty of time to spend with his 8-month-old son, who has been an off-season highlight for the NHL star.

NEW YORK, NY – New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba was named the 2023-24 recipient of the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award, which is presented “to the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice, during the regular season and who plays a leading role in his community growing the game of hockey.” Trouba is the first Rangers player to earn the annual Mark Messier Leadership Award since it was first presented on a season-by-season basis in the spring of 2007.

Since joining the organization ahead of the 2019-20 season, the 30-year-old defenseman has helped lead the Blueshirts to success on the ice and has taken pride in representing the club in the community. This past summer, he participated in the Rangers Youth Hockey Camp, signing autographs for and spending time with kids taking part in the camp. Now in his second year as team captain after being named to the position on Aug. 9, 2022, Trouba frequently hosts meet and greets following home games with kids from the Garden of Dreams Foundation, spending time with kids and occasionally taking them on a tour of the locker room.

NEW YORK, NY – Awards season continues to roll along in the NHL.

The NHL continued to doll out the group of finalists for its prestigious awards on Tuesday afternoon, nominating one player from each of the league’s 32 teams for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy. The award goes annually to the “player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and who has made a significant humanitarian contribution to his community.”

Please watch and listen to Jacob Trouba talk about his life as the captain of the New York Rangers, the support he receives from his wife and his quest to win the Stanley Cup.

NEW YORK, NY – Jacob Trouba was named captain of the New York Rangers on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, NY – Those of you who were kind enough to have read some, or all, of my 50-something Forever Blueshirt articles know that I am a 40-something year Ranger fan who has just about seen it all. Pertaining to the athletes that have patrolled the blue-line at the corner of 7th Avenue and 33rd Street, I have witnessed the great (Brian Leetch), the good (Ryan McDonagh), the bad (Joe Cirella) the ugly (Vlad Malakhov) and the grotesque (Igor Ulanov). Unfortunately and much to the chagrin of Ranger Nation, there have been more misses than hits when it comes to the Garden management opening up the check book for a high priced defenseman. Stephane Quintal anyone?

General manager Jeff Gorton made it crystal clear that trying to obtain former Winnipeg Jets defeseman Jacob Trouba was of great importance. Once the deal was completed that brought the Michigan native to the Big Apple in exchange for Neal Pionk and the 20th pick in the 2019 draft, Gorton finally nabbed his elusive prize and the Rangers had a legitimate top-tier number one cornerstone defeseman.

NEW YORK, NY – It was an exciting summer for the New York Rangers, and with the first three games of the season in the books, it seems to have all been worth it. Several fan-favorites and key core pieces that were supposed to be the future of this franchise were shipped off to “build” this team.

Out of all of the transactions, only one stands above the rest. That was the Jacob Trouba trade.