Filip Forsberg

40 goals from a median of 35 feet, which almost nobody does.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2012-13	NSH	5	0	1	1	-5	0	0	0	0	14	0.0	15:29
2013-14	NSH	13	1	4	5	-8	4	1	0	0	20	5.0	11:24
2014-15	NSH	82	26	37	63	+15	24	6	0	6	237	11.0	17:20
2015-16	NSH	82	33	31	64	+1	47	8	1	3	247	13.4	19:03
2016-17	NSH	82	31	27	58	-4	32	3	3	9	234	13.3	18:31
2017-18	NSH	67	26	38	64	+27	38	13	0	6	179	14.5	17:28
2018-19	NSH	64	28	22	50	+8	26	7	2	4	217	12.9	18:37
2019-20	NSH	63	21	27	48	-7	29	7	0	2	198	10.6	17:21
2020-21	NSH	39	12	20	32	-9	16	3	0	3	129	9.3	18:17
2021-22	NSH	69	42	42	84	+12	22	10	0	8	226	18.6	18:06
2022-23	NSH	50	19	23	42	-4	20	4	0	2	157	12.1	17:28
2023-24	NSH	82	48	46	94	+16	43	13	0	11	347	13.8	18:54
2024-25	NSH	82	31	45	76	-27	44	10	0	3	281	11.0	18:38
2025-26	NSH	82	40	35	75	-2	34	11	0	3	246	16.3	18:53
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	862	358	398	756	+13	379	96	6	60	2732	13.1	18:09

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

40 goals and 35 assists in all 82 games — 75 points, minus-2, at 18:53 a night with 11 power-play goals. 246 shots on goal.

The Finesse Game

The release is the whole thing and it is one of the best in the league. 390 unblocked attempts produced 40 goals from a median distance of 35 feet, with 30 per cent coming from beyond 40 and only a quarter from inside 20.

That is the shot chart of a man who does not need a good look. Almost every other 40-goal scorer in this book works from inside 25 feet; Forsberg beats goaltenders clean from the top of the circle, and has for a decade.

35 assists says the passing has never been the weak half.

The Physical Game

6-1, 205, and he plays a heavier game than the finesse suggests — he protects pucks below the goal line and takes the punishment on the power play. 34 penalty minutes.

The Intangibles

48.6 per cent of the expected goals, 42nd percentile, on a club that was 47.8 as a team and finished 25th in even-strength expected goals against.

The goals went 50-43 his way, 10 better than the chances underneath them. That is the roster flattering him rather than punishing him — Nashville’s goaltending still came in 4 goals worse than the chances faced, and its defence conceded the eighth-most in the league, so the surplus is his line’s finishing.

10 points in his last 10, 7 of them goals. He is 32, 756 points into 862 games, and has now scored 40 in a season 3 times. The shot is not going anywhere.

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.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
29.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,186 minutes

Expected goals: 48.6%; 43rd pct
Shot attempts: 52%; 74th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 43 against. Expected: 51.2 and 54.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

89th

Numbers

43rd

The report ranks him 46 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 37th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.52 a game
Distance: 3.00 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.5 mph; 85th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 7 goals, 3 assists, 28 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1186 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2025-26

The club: NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: 1,186 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan O'Reilly	51.7%	45.7%	48.9%
Brady Skjei	50.6%	47.4%	46.0%
Luke Evangelista	54.9%	45.5%	52.8%

51.7% together, 45.7% for him apart and 48.9% for O'Reilly apart. He was worse away from O'Reilly, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than O'Reilly 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

390 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 40 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.