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Defence · #27

Derek Forbort

Los Angeles Kings Calgary Flames Winnipeg Jets Boston Bruins Vancouver Canucks(traded during the season)
Age
34
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Duluth, USA
Draft
2010, round 1, #15 (LAK)

Career · 2015–16 to 2025–26

Games
56
Goals
2
Points
11
TOI per game
16:59
xGF% (5v5)
44.5%
Goals above expected
+0.3

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2015–16LAK14112−111:03147.1%00.560.1%
2016–17LAK8221618+820:071002.0%03.252.3%
2017–18LAK7811718+1820:47781.3%02.548.4%
2018–19LAK8121214−1320:45752.7%02.745.3%
2019–20LAK13011−417:51150.0%00.655.2%
2019–20CGY7000−117:4470.0%00.246.7%
2019–20All teams20011−517:49220.0%00.852.7%
2020–21WPG5621012+120:45673.0%01.946.9%
2021–22BOS7641014+218:07646.3%02.151.1%
2022–23BOS545712+1217:443813.2%01.646.6%
2023–24BOS35044+817:48220.0%01.054.5%
2024–25VAN542911−717:06395.1%11.645.2%
2025–26VAN2000013:5610.0%00.123.0%
Total5 teams5521987106+2319:055203.7%117.949.0%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.10.20.30.41020304050
15m16m17m18m19m1020304050Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

38th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.1125th pct
  • Assists /600.5028th pct
  • ixG /600.108th pct
  • Shots /602.9617th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)49.0%51st pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.8%43rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.217th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2680th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game19:0570th pct
  • PP time share1.9%31st pct
  • PK time share50.1%93rd pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%81st pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Karl AlznerWSH/MTL0.94
  2. Justin BraunSJS/PHI0.93
  3. Josh GorgesBUF0.90
  4. Brooks OrpikWSH0.90
  5. Nikita ZaitsevTOR/OTT/CHI0.89
  6. Ryan LindgrenNYR0.89

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+0.3 goals above expected

00.511.521020304050Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed33.2 km/h18th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph18th pct
  • Hardest shot91.5 km/h0th pct
  • Distance skated7 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.2%0th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

33.2 km/h5th pct

▲ +0.4 km/h since 2024–25

32333435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 33.3 km/h, 8th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 34.6 km/h, 32nd percentile (54 games)2023–24: 33.5 km/h, 4th percentile (35 games)2024–25: 32.9 km/h, 2nd percentile (54 games)2025–26: 33.2 km/h, 5th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.267th pct

▲ +1.8 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.6, 18th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 1.0, 30th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 0.2, 2nd percentile (35 games)2024–25: 0.4, 8th percentile (54 games)2025–26: 2.2, 67th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.3 km88th pct

▲ +0.7 km since 2024–25

1213141521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 12.6 km, 5th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 12.7 km, 6th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 12.9 km, 10th percentile (35 games)2024–25: 13.6 km, 49th percentile (54 games)2025–26: 14.3 km, 88th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

91.5 km/h0th pct

▼ −59.8 km/h since 2024–25

8010012014016018021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 142.5 km/h, 13th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 139.7 km/h, 7th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 134.2 km/h, 3rd percentile (35 games)2024–25: 151.2 km/h, 66th percentile (54 games)2025–26: 91.5 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.2%0th pct

▼ −4.7 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.2%, 11th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 39.2%, 16th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 38.3%, 10th percentile (35 games)2024–25: 40.9%, 38th percentile (54 games)2025–26: 36.2%, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)