{"id":35723,"date":"2018-09-14T17:48:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=35723"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:38:21","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-place-jake-dotchin-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/09\/14\/tampa-bay-lightning-place-jake-dotchin-on-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Place Jake Dotchin on Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> have announced that they have placed defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dotchja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Dotchin<\/a><\/strong> on unconditional waivers for terminating his contract. The Athletic&#8217;s Joe Smith reports the termination is on the grounds of &#8220;material breach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLightning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TBLightning<\/a> wasn\u2019t happy with Jake Dotchin\u2019s conditioning entering camp. Sure we\u2019ll find out more down the road, but team not expected to comment today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tnylLykdPN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/tnylLykdPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Smith (@JoeSmithNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeSmithNHL\/status\/1040639077857542144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smith goes onto speculate that the team was not happy with Dotchin\u2019s conditioning coming into training camp. The move is the first official transaction of new general manager <strong>Julien BriseBois<\/strong>\u2019 tenure since taking over for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/y\/yzermst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Yzerman<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h1>Lighting Put Jake Dotchin on Waivers<\/h1>\n<p>Dotchin has played only for the Tampa Bay Lightning during his two-year NHL career. He has put up three goals and 19 assists for 22 career points in 83 career games. The Tampa Bay Lightning originally drafted him in the sixth round, 161st overall of the 2012 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>He scored three goals and eight assists for 11 points for 48 games. Dotchin also added 38 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 52.8 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 1.4.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge, Ontario native was entering the final season of a two-year, $1.625 million contract signed with the Lightning last summer. He will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/lightning\/2018\/09\/14\/lightning-places-jake-dotchin-on-unconditional-waivers-for-material-breach-of-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unrestricted free agent once his contract is terminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>What This Means for the Future<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Dotchin was projected for a spot on defence, so the move is shocking. The move will open up a spot and either <strong>Cal Foote<\/strong> or <strong>Erik Cernak<\/strong> may move up from AHL affiliate Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old had an up-and-down season as he was paired with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Hedman<\/a><\/strong> on the first pair. However, Dotchin had a fair number of healthy scratches during the season. Most of these came after the All-Star Break.<\/p>\n<p>Dotchin seemingly had a bright future with the club, but now faces an uncertain one. He\u2019ll certainly get a look on another team, but this has to be a wake up call.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/09\/tampa-bay-lightning-defenceman-jake-dotchin-prepares-for-a-faceoff-picture-id923480306.jpg\" alt=\"\"><em>OTTAWA, ON &#8211; FEBRUARY 22: Tampa Bay Lightning Defenceman Jake Dotchin (59) prepares for a face-off during first period National Hockey League action between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators on February 22, 2018, at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada. (Photo by Richard A. Whittaker\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have announced that they have placed defenceman Jake Dotchin on unconditional waivers for terminating his contract. The Athletic&#8217;s Joe Smith reports the termination is on the grounds of &#8220;material breach.&#8221; Sounds like #TBLightning wasn\u2019t happy with Jake Dotchin\u2019s conditioning entering camp. Sure we\u2019ll find out more down the road, but team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":35725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[2291,1299,5738,1508,3711,2569,955,399,1769,42,1124],"class_list":["post-35723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-cal-foote","tag-erik-cernak","tag-hockey-news","tag-jake-dotchin","tag-julien-brisebois","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-steve-yzerman","tag-syracuse-crunch","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-victor-hedman"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}