{"id":288957,"date":"2025-11-16T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:32:10","slug":"forsberg-thanks-teammates-relishes-great-week-at-global-series-with-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288957\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsberg thanks teammates, relishes ‘great week’ at Global Series with Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

STOCKHOLM \u2013 When the game was over, when the festivities had concluded, Filip Forsberg<\/a> gathered all his teammates to deliver a message: He wanted to thank them.<\/p>\n

He knew it wasn\u2019t easy flying all the way to Stockholm in the middle of the season, knew that some of them had battled jet lag, had tasted foods they never imagined.<\/p>\n

But, to him, it meant the world, in games that he called probably his favorite of his NHL career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been unbelievable,\u201d said Forsberg, who grew up about three hours north of Stockholm in Leksand, Sweden. \u201cIt\u2019s been so much fun. I\u2019ve had both sets of grandparents here. I\u2019ve had family that you only see a week or two in the summer that have been watching their first NHL games. Eaten more meatballs than anyone on this team ever thought they would eat, probably. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll see another meatball for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which was why he made sure to thank his Nashville Predators teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s special, you could see how much it meant to them. Even after the game, ‘Fil’ said something to the group, that was really nice. Thanked everyone for their effort in coming here,\u201d Predators forward Ryan O’Reilly<\/a> said. \u201cIt was nice of him. You could tell it meant a lot to those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forsberg and Adam Wilsby<\/a>, the two Sweden natives on the Predators, put together a week to remember for their teammates, squeezing every moment out of the six days they spent in their home country. Though the week didn\u2019t end the way they had hoped \u2013 they dropped a 4-0 game to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday at Avicii Arena in Stockholm after winning 2-1 in overtime on Friday \u2013 they were still thrilled at what had been.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking for me, for ‘Willy,’ I\u2019m sure he feels the same way, obviously would have been even sweeter to have another win on the plane home with us, but overall it\u2019s a great, great week,\u201d said Forsberg, for whom Sunday also happened to mark his 800th game in the NHL.<\/p>\n

The best moment, for Forsberg, and for the Predators, came on Friday night, with 70 seconds remaining in regulation. That was when Forsberg scored to tie the game, unleashing an outpouring of emotion, of joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM \u2013 When the game was over, when the festivities had concluded, Filip Forsberg gathered all his teammates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}