{"id":116070,"date":"2021-07-28T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=116070"},"modified":"2021-07-28T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:10:41","slug":"boston-bruins-sign-derek-forbort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/boston-bruins-sign-derek-forbort\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Sign Derek Forbort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins have signed defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forbode01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Forbort<\/a> as another reinforcement for its blueline going into 2021-22. The veteran&#8217;s new deal is for three years with an annual cap hit of $3 million. Frank Seravalli broke the news Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing Derek Forbort has agreed to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLBruins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLBruins<\/a> on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>@DFOHockey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Sportsnet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1420416066711441408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bruins Sign Derek Forbort<\/h2>\n<p>Forbort was surprisingly effective for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> in 2020-21. The left-handed defender from Duluth, Minnesota posted two goals and 12 points in 56 games. He also contributed with 80 hits and 115 blocks while averaging 20:45 of ice time per game, a portion of which came on the penalty-killing unit. Finally, Forbort wasn&#8217;t a huge drain offensively with a 47.9 percent Corsi For and 2.8 relative Corsi. It would have been nice to see him drive play a bit more, but he was more than acceptable considering he started in the defensive zone for almost two-thirds of his shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/kings\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> originally drafted Forbort 15th overall in the 2010 Draft, but traded him after several seasons to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a> in exchange for a fourth-round pick. Forbort then signed with the Jets just prior to last year. The 6&#8217;4&#8243; blueliner has never been a central part of any team&#8217;s plans, but he has still managed to collect eight goals, 65 points, 551 hits and 606 blocks in just 331 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>Forbort joins a team with very real Stanley Cup aspirations. He won&#8217;t be anything more than a third-pairing defenceman in the next year, but he provides exactly what Boston loves to see in its secondary defenders. Do not be surprised if he ends up anchoring the team&#8217;s penalty-killing unit for much of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins have been fairly active this offseason. They <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/linus-ullmark-goes-to-boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">signed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/u\/ullmali01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linus Ullmark<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/21\/report-taylor-hall-signs-extension-with-the-boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">extended<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hallta02,hallta01&amp;search=Taylor+Hall&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hall<\/a>. They have also brought in a handful of other players that should make them a serious contender when the 2021-22 season begins. Boston may not make many more moves with only $1.08 million in remaining cap space. However, the ones they have made look efficient and substantial.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"WM2nI1pxQjh-Oxz6Ei7ieg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1232326195\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WM2nI1pxQjh-Oxz6Ei7ieg',sig:'Lyr_EHgehB9Knny-DwWBgVni-rthBCVZmBKLF8zI3zY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232326195',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins have signed defender Derek Forbort as another reinforcement for its blueline going into 2021-22. The veteran&#8217;s new deal is for three years with an annual cap hit of $3 million. Frank Seravalli broke the news Wednesday. Hearing Derek Forbort has agreed to join the #NHLBruins on a three-year deal. @DFOHockey @Sportsnet &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":116080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4547,34,4548],"tags":[2630,3476,194],"class_list":["post-116070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-derek-forbort","tag-linus-ullmark","tag-taylor-hall"],"modified_by":"Luke Flannigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}