It’s been an incredibly frustrating season for Derek Forbort.

Forbort appeared in just two games this season, the first two of what would end up being a disastrous 2025-26 season for the Vancouver Canucks.

Initially, the update on Forbort was that he was day-to-day. A few weeks later, the Canucks shared that Forbort had a setback, and was being considered week-to-week. Then at the end of October, the Canucks placed Forbort on long-term injured reserve. We didn’t see Forbort again for the rest of the season.

Speaking to media for the first time since then during players’ end-of-season media availabilities at Rogers Arena, Forbort detailed some of what he went through this season.

“Kind of started before training camp, started having some, 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, rehab, tried a bunch of things, and then it just kind of got to the point where I had to get the labral tear in my hip fixed, and I had surgery for that, and I’ve just been rehabbing now.”

Forbort, who turned 34 in March, was then asked whether or not he’d be able to continue his playing career next season.

“Yeah, I’d like to try and maybe grind out a couple more [seasons] depending how it feels,” Forbort said. “Just talking to the surgeon, he said it’s gonna solve a lot of the issues that I’ve had the last couple years. So hopefully makes a big difference and [I] can try and continue playing.”

The Canucks initially signed Forbort as a free agent for the 2024-25 season. An elite penalty-killer, Forbort appeared in 54 games for the club, and re-signed on a one-year deal valued at $2 million for this season. Forbort is slated to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1st.