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Filip Forsberg

Forty-eight goals on 347 shots, sixth in the league, at a career rate he has held for twelve years.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	698	287	318	605	+42	301	75	6	54	2205	13.0	18:00

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

All 82 games, 48 goals and 46 assists for 94 points, 13 on the power play, 11 game-winners, 43 penalty minutes, 18:54 a night and plus-16. He took 54.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,163 minutes, the 84th percentile, and his ice went 64-47 against an expectation of 57.48-48.31.

Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and one fewer conceded than they called for. Forty-eight goals was sixth in the league and eleven game-winners is a very large share of a club that won forty-seven games.

The Finesse Game

347 shots at a median of 32 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20 and 30 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 13.8 per cent against a career 13.02 across 2,205 shots.

318 career assists in 698 games. The conversion rate is the same at 30 as it was at 22, which over twelve seasons and two thousand shots is about as good evidence as a scout ever gets. He beats a goaltender from the circle and he carries the puck into the zone himself.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 205 and wins the wall when he decides to.

301 career penalty minutes in 698 games is a low rate. He forechecks hard on the puck and does not chase men, and he has 6 career shorthanded goals.

The Intangibles

Eleventh overall in 2012 by Washington, out of Ostervala, twelve seasons, 698 games and 605 points, all but the draft for one organisation.

He is 30 and has just scored forty-eight. Nashville acquired him for Martin Erat in 2013 and it is still the best trade in the club’s history.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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
30.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd 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
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
61% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He beats a goaltender from the circle and he carries the puck into the zone himself.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He is 6-1 and 205 and wins the wall when he decides to.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks hard on the puck and does not chase men, and he has 6 career shorthanded goals.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He forechecks hard on the puck and does not chase men, and he has 6 career shorthanded goals.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,163 minutes

Expected goals: 54.3%; 84th pct
Shot attempts: 53.8%; 84th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 64 for, 47 against. Expected: 57.5 and 48.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

95th

Numbers

84th

The two rank him within 11 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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, 2023-24 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 70th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.07 a game
Distance: 3.04 miles a game
Hardest shot: 99.6 mph; 99th 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 1163 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, 2023-24

The club: NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.3% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,163 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan O'Reilly	53.4%	58.3%	51.2%
Gustav Nyquist	54.2%	54.8%	45.5%
Roman Josi	56.9%	52.1%	53.0%

53.4% together, 58.3% for him apart and 51.2% for O'Reilly apart. He was better away from O'Reilly, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost O'Reilly.

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

493 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 49 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.