Derek Forbort

Derek Forbort
Date of birth	March 4th 1992
place of birth	Duluth , Minnesota , USA
size	193 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 15th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2009-2010	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2010-2013	University of North Dakota
2013-2015	Manchester monarchs
2015-2016	Ontario Reign
2015-2020	Los Angeles Kings
since 2020	Calgary Flames

Derek Forbort (born March 4, 1992 in Duluth , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League since February 2020 . Previously, the defender spent almost seven years in the Los Angeles Kings organization .

Career

Derek Forbort played for the Duluth East High School ice hockey team in his hometown when he was young . In the 2008/09 season, the defender got 28 scorer points in 25 games in the regional high school league , so that at the end of the season he was in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the US Ice Hockey Association, was invited. As a result, Forbort spent the entire 2009/10 season in the squad of the NTDP and took part with the team in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. At the same time, the selections of the NTDP act as junior national teams, so that he won the gold medal with the U18 of the United States at the U18 World Cup in 2010 . In the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2010 he was selected in 15th position by the Los Angeles Kings .

As a result, Forbort enrolled at the University of North Dakota in the fall of 2010 and from then on played for their Fighting Sioux in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In his first two seasons, the defender won the WCHA championship with the Fighting Sioux and took part in the U20 World Championships in 2011 and 2012 with the U20 national team in his home country , with Team USA winning the bronze medal in 2011. After his sophomore year, which he finished with 17 points out of 42 with personal bests, the Los Angeles Kings equipped him with an entry-level contract in April 2013 .

For the time being , the Kings used Forbort exclusively with their farm team , the Manchester Monarchs , in the American Hockey League (AHL), with the team winning the 2015 AHL Playoffs for the Calder Cup . At the beginning of the following season 2015/16, the American made his debut for the Kings in the National Hockey League (NHL) and came to 14 NHL appearances over the course of the year, but also spent most of this year in the AHL, with the Kings new farm team , the Ontario Reign . After signing a new two-year contract in Los Angeles in July 2016, Forbort established himself as part of the preparation for the season in the Kings NHL squad and was used there regularly from then on.

After almost seven years in the organization of the Kings, Forbort was handed over to the Calgary Flames for the trade deadline in February 2020 , which in return sent a conditional four-round vote in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft to Los Angeles.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 gold medal at the U18 World Championship
• 2011 bronze medal at the U20 World Cup
• 2011 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Championship with the University of North Dakota
• 2012 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Championship with the University of North Dakota
• 2015 Calder Cup win with the Manchester Monarchs

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	USA Hockey NTDP	NEAR		2	0	1	1	+1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL		26th	4th	10	14th	+12	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	University of North Dakota	NCAA		38	0	15th	15th	+21	26th
2011/12	University of North Dakota	NCAA		35	2	11	13	+2	28
2012/13	University of North Dakota	NCAA		42	4th	13	17th	+11	22nd
2012/13	Manchester monarchs	AHL		6th	0	1	1	+5	0		4th	0	0	0	-2	4th
2013/14	Manchester monarchs	AHL		74	1	16	17th	+19	42		3	0	0	0	± 0	0
2014/15	Manchester monarchs	AHL		67	4th	11	15th	+23	52		19th	0	6th	6th	+10	12
2015/16	Ontario Reign	AHL		40	2	8th	10	+13	40		13	0	2	2	+1	0
2015/16	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		14th	1	1	2	-1	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		82	2	16	18th	+8	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		78	1	17th	18th	+18	49		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		81	2	12	14th	-13	52		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		5	1	0	1	-3	5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		13	0	1	1	-4	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Calgary Flames	NHL		7th	0	0	0	-1	0		10	1	1	2	-1	2
NCAA overall				115	6th	39	45	+34	76
AHL total				192	8th	36	44	+57	139		39	0	8th	8th	+9	16
NHL overall				275	6th	47	53	+7	176		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

• U18 World Cup 2010
• U20 World Cup 2011
• U20 World Cup 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	United States	U18 World Cup			7th	0	2	2	+9	6th
2011	United States	U20 World Cup			6th	0	0	0	± 0	0
2012	United States	U20 World Cup	7th place		3	0	2	2	± 0	0
Juniors overall					16	0	4th	4th	+9	6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Calgary Flames website
• Derek Forbort at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kings Sign Forbort. nhl.com, April 6, 2013, accessed November 24, 2016 . 
2. ^ Kings have agreed to terms with Jack Campbell, Nic Dowd & Derek Forbort. nhl.com, July 11, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .