{"id":307883,"date":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","slug":"latest-on-travis-dermott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307883\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Travis Dermott"},"content":{"rendered":"

28-year-old defenseman Travis Dermott<\/a> is a veteran of nearly 350 NHL games, but doesn\u2019t currently have a contract for the 2025-26 season. Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reported today<\/a> that Dermott underwent shoulder surgery in June and has now fully recovered, and is looking for a place to play this season to resume his career.<\/p>\n

At one point, it looked as though Dermott was going to be a steady, long-term fixture on an NHL blueline \u2013 specifically that of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team that selected him 34th overall at the 2015 draft. The former Erie Otter was ranked No. 3 in the Maple Leafs\u2019 prospect pool in February 2018 by The Athletic\u2019s Scott Wheeler<\/a>. Dermott ended the season a Calder Cup champion, and Wheeler at the time projected him to become a No. 3 or No. 4 NHL defenseman, someone \u201cwho can positively impact possession and play on the penalty kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dermott\u2019s offensive production never quite took a step forward at the NHL level, and he has a career-high of just 17 points. His overall play was inconsistent, and persistent injury issues cost him the chance to get into a rhythm at the NHL level.<\/p>\n

If one specific point can be looked at as a turning point for Dermott in Toronto, it was overtime of game six of the team\u2019s 2021 first-round series against the Montreal Canadiens. While the Maple Leafs dominated most of the extra frame, Dermott ended up fumbling the puck and had to watch as Canadiens forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a> rifled a game-winning goal<\/a> past Jack Campbell<\/a>, forcing a game seven that the Maple Leafs ultimately lost.<\/p>\n

Dermott was never able to fully earn the trust of the Maple Leafs, and that moment underscored his inability to secure a firm grasp on a regular NHL role in Toronto. The following year after that playoff series, Dermott was traded to the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n

Injuries once again proved a major roadblock to Dermott\u2019s progress, limiting him to just 28 NHL games across two seasons in Vancouver. The Canucks cut him loose after he played in just 12 games in 2022-23.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dermott spent all of 2023-24 in the NHL with the since-relocated Arizona Coyotes, and sticking in the NHL for the full season helped him earn a one-year, $775K deal with the Edmonton Oilers for 2024-25, a deal that contained a hefty $500K AHL salary in the event Dermott got sent down.<\/p>\n

Once again, Dermott wasn\u2019t able to get on the ice consistently. He was limited to just 10 games in Edmonton in total, and nine games for the Minnesota Wild after he was claimed off of waivers in December. Injuries had limited him in the past, but in Minnesota, he was a regular healthy scratch.<\/p>\n

At this point, the key for Dermott to re-establish himself as an NHL-relevant player will be to stay and find a way to get into an NHL lineup and play well enough to hold onto that spot. He offers more NHL experience than most players still without a contract at this point in the season, so it\u2019s easy to see a team giving Dermott a shot. But given his form over the last few years, those hoping to get the version of Dermott that existed at times during his Maple Leafs tenure should probably temper their expectations.<\/p>\n

At 28 years old, whatever playing opportunity Dermott receives will be an absolutely massive one for the future of his career. It\u2019s easy to see Dermott\u2019s next contract as a fork-in-the-road moment in his NHL career, so it\u2019ll be extremely important for him to get off to a fast start wherever he lands in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of Nick Wosika-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28-year-old defenseman Travis Dermott is a veteran of nearly 350 NHL games, but doesn\u2019t currently have a contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82,4584,137759],"class_list":{"0":"post-307883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-travis-dermott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}