{"id":46753,"date":"2019-05-09T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=46753"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:01:25","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-travis-dermott-to-get-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/09\/toronto-maple-leafs-travis-dermott-to-get-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Travis Dermott to Get Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> have announced that defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dermotr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Dermott<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0sidelined for a minimum of six months with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MapleLeafs<\/a> announced today that defenceman Travis Dermott will undergo shoulder surgery on Friday, May 10. He is expected to miss a minimum of six months.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1126547442273538049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Travis Dermott Injured<\/h1>\n<p>It is still unknown when Dermott sustained this injury, however, he missed 14 games last season due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>This past season,\u00a0Dermott has scored 4 goals and 13 assists for 17 points to go along with 22 minutes in penalties in 64 games. His possession numbers were 54.9 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 5.2.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 2-year NHL career, Dermott has played exclusively for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He has 5\u00a0goals and 25 assists for 30\u00a0career points in 101\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted by the Leafs in the second\u00a0round, 34th\u00a0overall in the 2015\u00a0NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means Travis Dermott and the Leafs<\/h2>\n<p>The Leafs will be missing Dermott until at least November with the minimum 6-month timeline, meaning he will miss training camp and the first part of the season. This is one of many injuries to come out after the playoffs, including\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hymanza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Hyman<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/04\/25\/zach-hyman-to-undergo-acl-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injured ACL.<\/a>\u00a0This upcoming season is a contract year for Dermott, and not something he would want to sit out for a lot of.<\/p>\n<p>For the Leafs, Dermott is already a big part of the defence but would have gotten an even bigger role this upcoming season, as they are likely to lose\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gardija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Gardiner<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and have already seen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ozhigig01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Igor Ozhiganov<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/04\/26\/report-toronto-maple-leafs-igor-ozhiganov-expected-to-return-to-khl\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leave<\/a>. The team came forth earlier this year and said they&#8217;d like to play him with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/muzzija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Muzzin<\/a><\/strong> moving forward, having Muzzin on the left and Dermott on the right. With Dermott also finishing the season on the right side, it seemed that this was their intentions.<\/p>\n<p>This will open up a slot in training camp for a new player to take his place on the right side. It could be\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Holl<\/a><\/strong> who did not get very many games this season, or the Leafs could give right-handed prospect Timothy Liljegren a shot to start the year and evaluate him. While the injury is a hard one to make up for, it gives the Leafs an opportunity to look at what they have in terms of prospects or depth.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"HEZB51AtSUdUSQ0hBIHC4Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1137455686\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'HEZB51AtSUdUSQ0hBIHC4Q',sig:'HbF2xz777UNT41Pd4ptAmMLRcHiNZqBToaqQVK7bZV0=',w:'594px',h:'376px',items:'1137455686',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced that defenceman\u00a0Travis Dermott\u00a0is\u00a0sidelined for a minimum of six months with a shoulder injury. The @MapleLeafs announced today that defenceman Travis Dermott will undergo shoulder surgery on Friday, May 10. He is expected to miss a minimum of six months. &mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) May 9, 2019 Travis Dermott Injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":46763,"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":[34,18],"tags":[37,1576,611,393,38,72,2018],"class_list":["post-46753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-leafs","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-jake-gardiner","tag-jake-muzzin","tag-nhl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-travis-dermott"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46753","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\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}