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Vancouver Canucks

Derek Forbort

#27Defenseman

0.0 in 2 days
2025-26 regular season
2
GP
0
G
0
A
0
P
1
SOG
0.0% SH
13:56
TOI/GP

D · VAN · NHL id 8475762

Derek Forbort has played 2 games for the Vancouver Canucks in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 1 shots while averaging 13:56 a night (10:55 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 3:01 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 81% of his 5v5 minutes with Elias Pettersson and 36% with Evander Kane over the last 2 games, and the Canucks have controlled 26% of shot attempts with Forbort on the ice (1-1 in goals, 67% offensive-zone starts). In the Canucks' most recent game against EDM he was on D3 with Elias Pettersson and off the power play.

Right now

From the Oct 11 game vs EDM, detected from shift data

Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
PK2D
Filip Hronek
Last 2: D3 · D3

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 2 games, 13:56 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine330m3m7m10m13m17mOct 9Oct 11
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
2 games shown, 13:56 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2024-25 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 2 GP in 2025-26; showing 2024-25 NHL EDGE data.

Top speed11th1220.4 mph
Bursts 20+ mph24th256
Hardest shot72nd7394.0 mph
Offensive-zone time38th3940.9%
Distance skated45th46130.4 mi
High-danger SOG25th251
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals

Shot map, OPP at VAN: 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals, 0.15 expected goals; best chance Derek Forbort at 0.15 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Puck luck

2025-26 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

00.20.40.60.81-0.1goals below expected-0.4σOct 9Oct 11
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among defencemen. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2024-25 regular season · 53 of 54 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.078
Season net
−1.01xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.23
Attempts
3
0.002

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.38G
Per 60
−0.025
Drawn / taken
20.5 / 22.5minors

MethodLeaders
44.0%
42.5%
43.9%
Transition CF/60
4.0
Turnovers won/60
18.9
Turnovers lost/60
18.3

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
39 shots on goal, 2 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
L Point36%6%0
Low Slot3%21%1
Outside L21%5%0
R Circle0%13%0
R Point0%6%0
High Slot3%7%0
R Net Side0%3%0

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

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How his goals happened

2 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method
Goal anatomy
GamePlayEntryPassesShot mphNotesReplay
Mar 26, 2025 @ NYIOdd-man rushcarry046.04-on-3
Mar 9, 2025 vs DALCycle—4*41.7—

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Forbort

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Forbort apartCF% mate apart
Elias PetterssonD217:2381%22.7%50% (1-1)40.0% 4:1033.3% 6:20
Evander KaneLW27:4536%28.6%100% (1-0)23.1% 13:4862.1% 17:08
Braeden CootesC27:2835%10.0%0% (0-1)35.3% 14:0552.2% 10:59
Jonathan LekkerimäkiRW27:2034%18.2%100% (1-0)31.3% 14:1340.7% 12:51
Drew O'ConnorLW26:3931%42.9%— (0-0)20.0% 14:5460.9% 13:09
Filip ChytilC26:2630%40.0%— (0-0)22.7% 15:0747.4% 20:40
Kiefer SherwoodLW15:3426%37.5%0% (0-1)40.0% 6:3950.0% 5:40
Conor GarlandRW25:2025%33.3%100% (1-0)23.8% 16:1351.5% 19:15
Arshdeep BainsLW14:1520%0.0%0% (0-1)41.7% 7:5830.0% 6:52
Aatu RätyC13:4617%60.0%— (0-0)25.0% 8:2745.5% 6:08
Brock BoeserRW11:569%0.0%— (0-0)16.7% 7:2441.2% 9:41
Jake DeBruskLW11:277%0.0%— (0-0)16.7% 7:5340.0% 7:36
Elias PetterssonC11:196%0.0%— (0-0)15.4% 8:0143.8% 8:31
Quinn HughesD11:166%100.0%— (0-0)7.7% 8:0459.5% 18:33

Game log

2 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Oct 11@ EDML 1-300001212—12:359:20—3:15
Oct 9vs CGYW 5-100000012—15:1712:30—2:47

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations227:5213:5682623.5%26.1%5111150%0.61.436%
Even strength221:5010:5572025.9%27.8%481150%0.51.167%
5v5221:3310:4772025.9%27.8%481150%0.51.167%
Penalty kill26:023:011614.3%20.0%1300—0.10.40%
4v526:023:011614.3%20.0%1300—0.10.40%

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26VAN20000210.0%2413:56
2024-25VAN542911-745395.1%657717:06
2023-24PlayoffsBOS30000010.0%12717:49
2023-24BOS35044+817220.0%686517:48
2022-23PlayoffsBOS7011-11940.0%71115:26
2022-23BOS545712+12233813.2%1068817:44
2021-22PlayoffsBOS7101-112714.3%191818:23
2021-22BOS7641014+248646.3%13310018:07
2020-21PlayoffsWPG8101-10147.1%221924:38
2020-21WPG5621012+135673.0%8011520:45
2019-20CGY, LAK20011-54220.0%353017:49
2018-19LAK8121214-1352752.7%10513920:45
2017-18LAK7811718+1849781.3%14215620:47

Derek Forbort news

Headlines via LineupExperts. Links open the original publisher.

On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.