10th year center Brock Trotter(91) has definitely not had an easy path to continuing to play pro hockey but endures and even put up a career high tying 41 assists last season for Dornbirner EC.
The 32-year old moves on to Slovak Tipsport Liga signing a one-year deal with HKM Zloven for 2019/2020.
He was sidelined with an injury for two campaigns from 2012-2014, getting a successful tryout with Medevascak Zagreb of the KHL upon his return but that last only 16 games before being traded to Dinamo Riga.
After that somewhat uneven outing in Russia he moved onto Sweden’s tier two league, Allsvenskan, grabbing a year with IF Bjorkloven, where he started to gain his scoring legs again (6-20-26 in 35 games).
His next foray had him heading to Liiga under agreement with SaiPa.
He did well but it was his next inter-league move to Karpat, when he really started to gel getting 4 goals and 8 assists with a +4 rating in 9 games before adding another 2 points in 2 playoff matchups.
Deciding to head back to North America, he inked a pto with Chicago Wolves and was on their opening night roster but last four AHL games before being released.
He would mostly stay sidelined for 2017/2018 but has obviously returned with little problem and much success in Austria’s top hockey.
There’s little doubt he’ll do well in Slovakia’s top league, if he can stay healthy.
Brock Trotter (39)
When St. John’s IceCaps picked up center Brock Trotter(39) in early March on an AHL loan deal he was on the sidelines nursing an upper body injury that made his immediate playing future a bit unclear.
He managed to return before the regular season concluded and skated in the last couple games with the team after missing 20 previous contests.
The point per game forward failed to reach the scoresheet.
The IceCaps’ Calder Cup future was already sealed though and they opened as the number 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Throughout 8 postseason games (so far) he is back to form contributing 5 goals, while adding 4 assists but none would add up more importantly than the pair he pocketed in the Semi-Finals‘ 2-1 overtime game 3 win vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to put them in the series lead.
He’s set to become an restricted free agent as summer approaches and bets are on that Winnipeg Jets will make a move with Phoenix to sign the fully stretched 5’10” 185 lbs. minor league scoring machine up for another season.
