Gustav Forsling

Sweden Gustav Forsling


Date of birth	June 12, 1996
place of birth	Linkoping , Sweden
size	182 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	defender
number	# 42
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 5th round, 126th position Vancouver Canucks
KHL Junior Draft	2016 , 5th round, 145th position HK Sochi

Career stations

until 2016	Linköpings HC
2016-2019	Chicago Blackhawks Rockford IceHogs
since 2019	Carolina Hurricanes Charlotte Checkers

Johan Gustav Forsling (* 12. June 1996 in Linköping ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who since June 2019 when the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League is under contract on their farm team, the parallel Charlotte Checkers , in the American Hockey League on the position of the defender plays. Previously, Forsling was active for three seasons in the organization of the Chicago Blackhawks .

Career

Forsling went through the youth department of his home club Linköpings HC up to his debut in the men's team in the Svenska Hockeyligan in the 2014/15 season .

After he was selected in the fifth round in the fifth round of the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft , the Canucks had ceded his transfer rights to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2015 , while Adam Clendening was given to the Canadian West coast taxes. In May 2016, Chicago finally signed the defender, where he was able to secure a place in the NHL squad at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . The rest of the season he spent in roughly equal parts in the NHL and the Blackhawks' farm team , the Rockford IceHogs , in the American Hockey League (AHL). In the following two seasons, too, the Swede commuted between the NHL and AHL squads, where he completed around 40 NHL games as in his rookie year . When his contract expired in the summer of 2019, Forsling was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in June 2019 together with his compatriot Anton Forsberg . In return, the Chicago Blackhawks received Calvin de Haan and Aleksi Saarela .

For his home country, Forsling completed the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 , the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 as well as the U18 Junior World Championship in 2014 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2015 . At the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, he won the tournament with the Swedish team.

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012/13	Linköpings HC	J20 SuperElit	14th	0	1	1	8th	1	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Linköpings HC	J20 SuperElit	44	6th	12	18th	36	2	1	3	4th	2
2014/15	Linköpings HC	SHL	38	3	3	6th	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Linköpings HC	SHL	48	6th	15th	21st	4th	6th	1	2	3	4th
2016/17	Rockford IceHogs	AHL	30th	1	7th	8th	12	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	38	2	3	5	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rockford IceHogs	AHL	18th	2	3	5	6th	13	1	4th	5	6th
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	41	3	10	13	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rockford IceHogs	AHL	5	0	2	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	43	3	6th	9	30th	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall			58	6th	13	19th	44	3	1	3	4th	2
Svenska hockey player overall			86	9	18th	27	12	6th	1	2	3	4th
AHL total			53	3	12	15th	20th	13	1	4th	5	6th
NHL overall			122	8th	19th	27	42	-	-	-	-	-

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2013	Sweden	U17-WHC		6th	0	2	2	2
2013	Sweden	HIMT	7th place	4th	0	0	0	6th
2014	Sweden	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	4th	1	5	2
2015	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	3	5	8th	0
Juniors overall				24	7th	8th	15th	10

( 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 )

personal data
SURNAME	Forsling, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Forsling, Johan Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linkoping , Sweden