NHL’s Filip Forsberg Gushes About ‘Rare’ Chance He Had With Son Felix

A disappointing finish to Filip Forsberg’s hockey season was adopted by one heck of an opportunistic milestone in his private life. 

Forsberg, 30, and the Nashville Predators misplaced within the first spherical of the Stanley Cup Playoffs this spring, crashing out in six video games towards the Vancouver Canucks on Could 3. 9 days later, Forsberg’s spouse, Erin Alvey, gave beginning their first child, son Felix. 

Along with his hockey schedule instantly freed up, it allowed Forsberg — who stars on Prime Video’s new actuality sequence Faceoff: Contained in the NHL together with his spouse (and Felix!) — to spend all summer time with the most recent addition to his household. 

“The primary month and a half, it was simply restoration mode for me,” Forsberg solely advised Us Weekly. “I didn’t must go to the rink, go to apply. I didn’t must do something. It was actually simply spending time with him and Erin.”

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Forsberg continued, “Particularly folks in my career, it’s very uncommon you get that kind of time early on in life. One in every of my teammates simply had a child two days earlier than coaching camp began. That’s on the opposite finish, you realize?”

Because of the happenstance, Forsberg was in a position to play a lot of an lively position in Felix’s first few months. 

“If we’d have moved on from the primary spherical, it may have been a mid-playoff child,” he stated. “It could have been very totally different. It’s not like I needed to sleep in one other room as a result of he wakes up. I may simply be up there.”

With the 2024-25 season proper across the nook — the Predators open the common season October 10 towards the Dallas Stars — Alvey is aware of issues are about change. 

“It’s so much on a mother’s shoulders,” Alvey admitted. “However I really feel so fortunate. I’m not doing it alone. We’ve got some assist. She comes a pair hours within the mornings generally, which is sweet. If I would like her, she comes. We will’t complain. He’s a very good child.”

Alvey has additionally been in a position to lean on the “superb” help of the opposite Predators’ wives and girlfriends.

“They’re the sweetest women,” she gushed. “I feel it’s the identical throughout the league. You turn out to be a household. It’s a small world. You all have one factor in frequent: your companion is gone on the identical time. We actually must rely upon one another. We do, significantly right here in Nashville. It’s a really sort group. There’s younger, there’s older, it’s only a actually cool combine.”

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Alvey added, “I can’t say sufficient good issues in regards to the women right here.”

As for child Felix, viewers of Faceoff: Contained in the NHL, which premiered Friday, October 4, will get an inside have a look at the joy and chaos of his earliest moments — even when that wasn’t precisely the plan for the Forsbergs, who had been first approached in regards to the sequence earlier than they even knew they had been anticipating. 

“I don’t know if it’s any woman’s dream to be 9 months pregnant whereas filming a TV present,” Alvey joked. “Nevertheless it was cool. I needed to let go of my ego and vainness slightly bit. I bought one of the best present I may have ever gotten, so if these additional 45 kilos are on there, it’s what it’s.”

All six episodes of Faceoff: Contained in the NHL are streaming now on Prime Video.