Derek Forbort
Vancouver Canucks Defense
Forty-five penalty minutes in 54 games, and the worst chance share of any defenceman on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | LAK | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7.1 | 11:03 |
| 2016-17 | LAK | 82 | 2 | 16 | 18 | +8 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 2.0 | 20:07 |
| 2017-18 | LAK | 78 | 1 | 17 | 18 | +18 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 1.3 | 20:47 |
| 2018-19 | LAK | 81 | 2 | 12 | 14 | -13 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 2.7 | 20:45 |
| 2019-20 | LAK/CGY | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.0 | 17:49 |
| 2020-21 | WPG | 56 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 3.0 | 20:45 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 76 | 4 | 10 | 14 | +2 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 6.3 | 18:07 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 54 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +12 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 13.2 | 17:44 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 35 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.0 | 17:48 |
| 2024-25 | VAN | 54 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -7 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 5.1 | 17:06 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 550 | 19 | 87 | 106 | +23 | 344 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 519 | 3.7 | 19:06 |
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
2 goals and 9 assists in 54 games — 11 points at 17:06 a night, minus-7, with 45 penalty minutes.
44.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 11th percentile — the worst mark of any defenceman on the roster. His ice went 21-34 against an expectation of 21.16-26.69, which says the chances were poor and the results were worse by seven.
The Finesse Game
39 attempts in 54 games at a median of 53 feet with 72 per cent from beyond 40, and 2 goals. 106 points in 550 career games.
9 assists. The first pass is the whole puck game and under a heavy forecheck it becomes the chip off the wall; the exits stop when he is the man making them.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 216 and this is the entire case for him. He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league, he clears the front of his own net, and he kills penalties.
45 penalty minutes in 54 games is a high rate for a third-pairing defenceman and a share of it is the stick foul of a man playing at the edge of his speed.
The Intangibles
Fifteenth overall in 2010 and 550 games and 106 points across four organisations, most of it as a penalty-killing bottom-pair defenceman.
He is 33. On a club that finished 7th in the league at suppressing chances at even strength, a third pairing at the 11th percentile is the place the structure breaks.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 754 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.2%
- 11th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 21st pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 34 against. Expected: 21.2 and 26.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 754 minutes at five-on-five
- Filip Hronek19%
- Tyler Myers13%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.2% — 4.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 754 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock Boeser | 47.4% | 43.1% | 48.7% |
| Jake DeBrusk | 41.9% | 45.0% | 48.6% |
| Conor Garland | 52.1% | 41.7% | 53.7% |
47.4% together, 43.1% for him apart and 48.7% for Boeser apart. He was worse away from Boeser, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Boeser did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
65 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.