Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, posted a 17-save shutout in a 1-0 victory in his first game against his former team.<\/p>\nBefore arriving in Ottawa, Forsberg wasn\u2019t sure how long his NHL career would last.<\/p>\n
Through five season,s he had played 48 games for three different teams and had been claimed off waivers twice in a span of three days before the Senators claimed him off waivers in March 2021.<\/p>\n
In Ottawa, he was finally able to establish himself and prove he belonged in the NHL.<\/p>\n
In March of 2022, in the midst of a career-year, the Senators signed Forsberg to a three-year $8.25 million extension that finally allowed the journeyman to set some roots for him and his young family.<\/p>\n
Forsberg, drafted 188th overall by Columbus in 2011, spent parts of five seasons with the Senators and posted a 62-56-10 record during that span.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite providing Ottawa with a solid option behind Linus Ullmark the club chose to promote from within and Forsberg went on to sign a two-year $4.5 million contract with the Kings.<\/p>\n
During a first-period television timeout Saturday, the Senators shared a highlight video and Forsberg admitted it was a bit emotional hearing the applause and seeing the fan reaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a big place for my family and I, both on and off the ice,\u201d admitted Forsberg. \u201cWe made a lot of friends outside of hockey. It\u2019s been our home for quite a while so it was special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forsberg, who was making his sixth start, has a 3-2-1 record on the season and is looking to be a solid contributor for the Kings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was really good,\u201d said Kings coach Jim Hiller. \u201cProbably his best game of the year. It was a good time to save it for him.<\/p>\n
“Coming back here he\u2019s got a lot of friends and fans appreciated the job he did while he was a Senator. We really needed him and, you said there wasn\u2019t a lot of shots, but there were four or five that were really important and he got it done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teammates knew the game meant a lot to Forsberg and they were thrilled to be able to come through and help support him.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s fun for him,\u201d said teammate Mikey Anderson. “He gets to see everyone. Some friends and some people that have probably become family for him so it\u2019s a fun night for him. Everyone is pretty juiced up for him.”<\/p>\n
Forsberg had a lot of support from his teammates, including a key block by Drew Doughty midway through the first on Tyler Kleven. Doughty left the game and was seen wearing a boot on his left foot following the game.<\/p>\n
“The way he (Doughty) battled there, that\u2019s just the type of player he is,\u201d said Forsberg. \u201cIt takes a lot for him to go down and he stuck with it and probably took away a goal there, so it was great.”<\/p>\n
The Kings said they won\u2019t have an update on Doughty until Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton Forsberg knew returning to Ottawa would be emotional, but he couldn\u2019t have scripted it any better. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-286576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}