{"id":441578,"date":"2026-01-27T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441578\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:06:07","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-waive-defenceman-dakota-mermis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441578\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs waive defenceman Dakota Mermis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> placed defenceman Dakota Mermis<\/a> on waivers on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mermis has been sidelined since Dec. 8 with a knee injury and was assigned to the AHL\u2019s Toronto Marlies on an LTIR conditioning loan last week. He has gone without a point in three games with the Marlies.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old blueliner has one goal in 11 games for the Leafs this season, averaging 13:02 of ice time a night. He is currently in the first year of a two-year, $1.625 million deal.<\/p>\n

Mermis was hurt after taking knee-on-knee hit from Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> forward Gage Goncalves<\/a> in December. Goncalves was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct on the play.<\/p>\n

A native of Alton, IL, Mermis is in his second stint with the Maple Leafs, having been claimed off waivers from Utah in January of 2025.<\/p>\n

Undrafted out of the Ontario Hockey League\u2019s London Knights, Mermis has appeared in 14 games over two seasons with the Leafs.<\/p>\n

Having made his NHL debut in 2018, Mermis has appeared in 89 games across nine seasons with the Leafs, Utah\/Arizona Coyotes, Minnesota Wild<\/a> and New Jersey Devils<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For his career, Mermis has five goals and nine assists.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> waived former Maple Leafs forward Zach Aston-Reese<\/a> and forward Brendan Gaunce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs placed defenceman Dakota Mermis on waivers on Monday. Mermis has been sidelined since Dec.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,229609,575,85,113126],"class_list":["post-441578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dakota-mermis-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477541","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}