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Filip Forsberg
Nashville Predators Left Wing
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.
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
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: 64 for, 47 against. Expected: 57.5 and 48.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 14 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 415 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.
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.