{"id":126992,"date":"2022-03-21T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=126992"},"modified":"2022-03-21T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:29:19","slug":"ottawa-senators-extend-anton-forsberg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/21\/ottawa-senators-extend-anton-forsberg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Extend Anton Forsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators have extended goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsban01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Forsberg<\/a> on Monday. Ottawa signed the netminder to a three-year, $8.25 million contract that takes him through the end of the 2024-25 season. The average cap hit will be $2.75 million per season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News Release: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sens<\/a> have signed goaltender Anton Forsberg to a three-year, $8.25M (2.75M AAV), contract extension: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HBWo5ClcgG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/HBWo5ClcgG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pukbMweezd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pukbMweezd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ottawa Senators (@Senators) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Senators\/status\/1505908489524289541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Senators Ink Anton Forsberg Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Forsberg is having a solid season with a 14-12-2 record with a 2.77 goals-against-average and .918 save percentage. The Harnosand, Sweden also earned his first career shutout this season with Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes and Senators over his seven-year NHL career. The 29-year-old has a career record of 29-41-7 with a 3.05 goals-against-average. Forsberg also has a shutout that he earned this season and a .908 save percentage over his career. Columbus originally drafted him in the seventh round, 188th overall of the 2011 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented his native Sweden on the international level. Forsberg was part of the gold-medal winning squad at the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championships.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>Forsberg has filled in well this season for the Senators while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Murray<\/a> struggled and others got hurt. It&#8217;s not been the best season for Ottawa, but the Swedish stopper has been a bright spot.<\/p>\n<p>The goalie will finally have some consistency in his career as he&#8217;s bounced around in the early part of his career. It took him time to get regular work in the crease, but he&#8217;ll have that with Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Murray may have turned things around in recent weeks, but it will be nice to have Forsberg as an insurance policy. He hopefully won&#8217;t have to worry about getting dealt again and may get a shot at the starting gig in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa hopes that this is the last year of being mediocre and can finally make a move up the Atlantic Division standings. Injuries have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/17\/ottawa-senators-thomas-chabot-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">hampered the Senators<\/a>, but there are some quality younger players on the squad.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1lb_r_GSSZ9yhadr9ixIPQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1232420974\" 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:'1lb_r_GSSZ9yhadr9ixIPQ',sig:'-D6ae8HJdYCzBppMFuxUpHhzTNsYOS_I703dcEZ7A0U=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232420974',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators have extended goalie Anton Forsberg on Monday. Ottawa signed the netminder to a three-year, $8.25 million contract that takes him through the end of the 2024-25 season. The average cap hit will be $2.75 million per season. News Release: The #Sens have signed goaltender Anton Forsberg to a three-year, $8.25M (2.75M AAV), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":108832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1752,478,955],"class_list":["post-126992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-anton-forsberg","tag-matt-murray","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126992","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}