Updated on 01.18 | Published on 01.15
New York. William Nylander isn’t the only exciting Swede in the NHL right now.
Filip Forsberg also warmed up properly and finished second in the Swedish Shooting League with two new goals as Nashville was thrashed by a Blues tailwind on Black Friday morning.
“We didn’t play any of our best games, but we were very effective,” Maassen told Sportbladet after the 8-3 loss.
Filip Forsberg has played good hockey all season – but in October the goal distribution was rather mediocre, at least for him.
But now, it’s been suitably toned down for the 29-year-old playboy. Ten goals in the last nine games – including two in the Black Friday match in St. Louis – says it all.
– Well, I also think things went well, except for a few games, he said by phone from Missouri.
– In terms of dividend distribution, you’re probably already stuck at the beginning. Then the batteries run out and it calms down a bit. And then it comes.
Filip, who now sits second in the Swedish Shooting League and 12th in overall points, has high praise for his new group mates Ryan O’Reilly and Gustav Nyquist – who both came to Nashville for this season.
-We started to develop more and more chemistry together. He says they are also easy people to play with, and both are very intelligent.
Coming into Friday’s game, the Predators had earned their fourth straight win, and suddenly, after a long stay far at the bottom of the table, they had a hold on the Western Conference streak.
– Today’s match was a bit strange. “We didn’t play any of our best games, but we were really efficient,” Flipper says.
Yes, not least himself.
