{"id":936860,"date":"2026-10-17T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:30:09","slug":"detroit-red-wings-waive-defenceman-jacob-bernard-docker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936860\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings waive defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have placed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jacob-bernard-docker\/8480879\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jacob-bernard-docker\/8480879\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/a> on waivers, according to Postmedia\u2019s Bruce Garrioch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old battled an upper-body injury and was activated from injured reserve last week. He has yet to play a game at the NHL level this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bernard-Docker had one goal and five points in 63 games with Detroit last season while averaging 14:49 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Banff, Alta., Bernard-Docker was selected No. 26 overall in the 2018 NHL Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>. He spent parts of five seasons in the nation\u2019s capital before joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> via trade in March of 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bernard-Docker then signed as a free agent with the Red Wings later that summer. He is currently on a two-year deal that runs through 2027-28 and pays him $1.6 million annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has seven goals and 29 points in 207 career NHL regular season games spread out over six seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings have placed defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker on waivers, according to Postmedia\u2019s Bruce Garrioch. The 26-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,79110,216955,82],"class_list":["post-936860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-red-wings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-17","tag-jacob-bernard-docker-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480879","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936860","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=936860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}