Canucks Derek Forbort Details His Battle With Injuries This Season & Potential Future In The NHL
Derek Forbort played just two games this season for the Vancouver Canucks.
The 2025-26 season was a complicated one for Derek Forbort. The Vancouver Canucks defenceman played the first two games of the campaign, but did not play again for the rest of the year due to what the club originally called "maintenance". Add in very few updates from the team throughout the season, and Forbort's injury was a perplexing mystery for the last six months.
Fans and media finally got some clarity on what exactly Forbort was dealing with as he spoke during the year-end availabilities. The 34-year-old detailed some of the procedures he underwent, which included a Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection. In his answer, Forbort also included a timeline of when he started dealing with injury issues.
"Yeah, kind of started before training camp," said Forbort. "Started having some hip issues. Was able to get through training camp with a Cortisone injection that kind of wore off.
Ended up doing like a PRP injection in Toronto. Had a pretty bad reaction to that. And then, kind of once that calmed down, we were just trying to rehab.