{"id":39651,"date":"2019-01-02T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=39651"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:23:44","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-place-jason-garrison-on-unconditional-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/02\/chicago-blackhawks-place-jason-garrison-on-unconditional-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks Place Jason Garrison on Unconditional Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> have placed defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/garrija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Garrison<\/a><\/strong> on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/12\/30\/chicago-blackhawks-acquire-drake-caggiula-jason-garrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrison was acquired\u00a0by the Hawks<\/a> on Sunday from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. He was part of a 4 player deal that saw Chicago sending defensemen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mannibr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Manning<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robin Norell\u00a0to Edmonton for forward\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/caggidr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake Caggiula<\/a>\u00a0and Garrison. Garrison signed a one year, $650,000 deal in October with the Oilers. The Hawks will end up paying Garrison $332,000 for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was wondering why Jason Garrison wasn&#39;t assigned to Rockford yesterday. Now we know as he&#39;s been put on unconditional waivers.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Powers (@ByScottPowers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByScottPowers\/status\/1080511752163508231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/garrija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Garrison<\/a> Carrer Numbers<\/h1>\n<p>This\u00a0season Garrison has scored one goal in 17 games. He also added eight minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 45.6 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -6.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 11-year NHL career, the veteran defenseman has spent time with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. He has put up 49 goals and 111 assists for 160 career points in 555 career games.\u00a0He was originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> in the third round, 95th overall in the 2002 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for Garrison and the Hawks.<\/h1>\n<p>The 11-year defensemen will now become a free agent after having his contract terminated by the Hawks. Garrison spent a majority of last season in the AHL with the Chicago Wolves after being selected by Vegas in the expansion draft. He has played in only 25 NHL games since the beginning\u00a0of last season.\u00a0Garrison could look to find a team who is looking for help on the backend. He presents a physical presence on the ice and could help a team who needs more physicality. The Detroit Red Wings could be one team taking a look at Garrison with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/daleytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Daley<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0out three to five weeks with a broken foot. It will be intriguing to see if Garrison ends up finding a job with an NHL squad<\/p>\n<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":ru\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":rv\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In addition to Garrison, Defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/davidbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Davidson<\/a><\/strong> has also been put on waivers for the purpose of sending him down to the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Sf2SRQK_TNRvyXEBHe8IvA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1063936042\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Sf2SRQK_TNRvyXEBHe8IvA',sig:'5XRleL4UQP38X-y2uOLRDuDrowXgXd96AaJZSIxv9IE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1063936042',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks have placed defenseman Jason Garrison on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract. Garrison was acquired\u00a0by the Hawks on Sunday from the Edmonton Oilers. He was part of a 4 player deal that saw Chicago sending defensemen\u00a0Brandon Manning\u00a0and\u00a0Robin Norell\u00a0to Edmonton for forward\u00a0Drake Caggiula\u00a0and Garrison. Garrison signed a one year, $650,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":39671,"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":[27,34],"tags":[246,3306,955],"class_list":["post-39651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackhawks","category-news","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-jason-garrison","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}