This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Anton Forsberg
Los Angeles Kings Goaltender
A .9010 in 30 games, and a backup signed to take 30 nights off a 35-year-old.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | CBJ | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 4.69 | 0 | 149 | .866 |
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3.03 | 0 | 97 | .907 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4.10 | 0 | 27 | .852 |
| 2017-18 | CHI | 35 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 85 | 2.97 | 0 | 921 | .908 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3.35 | 0 | 78 | .897 |
| 2020-21 | OTT | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 3.21 | 0 | 264 | .909 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 46 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 121 | 2.82 | 1 | 1457 | .917 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 28 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 80 | 3.26 | 2 | 817 | .902 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 30 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 84 | 3.21 | 2 | 765 | .890 |
| 2024-25 | OTT | 30 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 76 | 2.72 | 3 | 768 | .901 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 190 | 74 | 81 | 14 | 511 | 3.04 | 8 | 5343 | .904 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
11-12-3 in 30 games, .9010 with a 2.72 average and 3 shutouts on 768 shots with Ottawa.
A league-average season behind a club that made the playoffs. 3 shutouts in 30 games is the interesting line — he has a habit of producing one excellent night in a run of ordinary ones.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 200, and the game is positional and unhurried. He is square, plays a fairly deep crease, and relies on the chance being ordinary rather than on making a save nobody else would.
The lateral movement is adequate rather than quick and the rebound control is the weaker half. Behind a club that concedes as little as this one, neither is likely to be exposed often.
The Mental Game
Eleven professional seasons, six organisations, a decade of being waived and claimed, and a genuine NHL job at 30 after most people had stopped expecting one.
There is no record of a bad night carrying forward and no stretch of sustained excellence either. He is exactly what a backup should be.
The Intangibles
At 33, on a modest contract, replacing a backup who played 33 games.
Los Angeles’s crease is a 35-year-old with one 50-game season in four years and a 33-year-old career backup. On a club whose whole margin is defensive, that is the least secure part of it.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He is square, plays a fairly deep crease, and relies on the chance being ordinary rather than on making a save nobody else would.”
“The lateral movement is adequate rather than quick”
“the rebound control is the weaker half”