He's suffered some injuries, but let's hope he's on the right path right, that he continues to build strength and confidence, so that he's on the ice here next year in Philadelphia." Hopefully, everything goes smoothly for him and he competes for a job here in Philadelphia. He has to be feeling good about the way he is physically right. He's obviously feeling good about himself. "Again, he had a difficult year last year with injuries. It's very noticeable because I haven't seen him in 3 or 4 months." said Mike O'Connnell, the Flyers Senior Advisor to Chuck Fletcher on matters of Player Development.
He was never heavy, but you can look at a player over the last 3 or 4 months, I see a huge difference in his physique and the way he carries himself. He looks stronger, he's leaned out for me. He is bigger and stronger than he was even one year ago, and he's added a little more explosiveness on the ice. The Flyers' staff has taken notice of Foerster's conditioning level. In the summer, I started working out and I was like this is okay, a hundred percent now, I should be good to go," Foerster said. Getting those stronger will help my skating. I've been here the whole summer so far, so working out with these guys training and working on my legs.
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Over the course of his injury rehab and the offseason to date, Foerster has continued to work on his skating - the primary factor that caused him to drop to 23rd in the 2020 NHL Draft despite his dynamic overall offensive skill set and a fearsome shot, He has worked out hard in the gym and his shoulder is finally back to full strength along with his confidence, Apart from one particularly dominant outing on April 3 in which he recorded a hat trick, Foerster was playing catch-up in terms of regaining his timing and game conditioning.
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He was ultimately able to dress in 13 OHL regular season games for the Colts (6g, 11 points) plus six playoff games (1g, four points). I was actually on the ice skating here during that time until I could start stick handling and shooting."Īssigned to the OHL, Foerster joined the Barrie lineup on March 25 in Oshawa. " I was with Kjell Samuelsson and Slava, the skating coach because I wasn't able to use stick handle or use a stick or anything. " I would probably say after four or five months I started to feel pretty good and wanting to get back out there," Foerster said. To his credit, the player was very diligent in his rehabilitation. There was a chance he could miss the rest of the season. The medical news was bad: Foerster had a tear in his shoulder and would have to undergo surgery. Went and got it looked at," Foerster recalled. I continued playing and then I was like I don't think something is right. I think my elbow hit the ice before my body did and it just popped out. I think I was diving for the puck to try and keep it in. Maybe I should have scored on that before it happened.
Little did Foerster realize that he was about to skate his final AHL shift of the 2021-22 season. At 13:06 of the first period, with Lehigh Valley trailing 3-0 (on the way to a 7-3 defeat), the Phantoms went on a 5-on-3 power play. 6, the Phantoms traveled to the Bojangles Coliseum to take on the Charlotte Checkers. The marker, a power play tally set up by Cam York and Morgan Frost, represented one of the few highlights for the Phantoms in the early part of the season. Foerster was named the third-star of the night in a 4-0 win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, scoring his second goal of the season and registering seven shots on goal in a 4-0 victory. Through the first eight games of the AHL season, the Phantoms owned just a single win (1-6-1). I don't know it was just a tough-go really for the start of the season for us down at Lehigh," Foerster said. "I only got to play in eight games (before getting injured), so I didn't really get the real feel of it. He posted a pair of goals and three points in nine games and was saddled with a minus-seven traditional plus-minus rating in that span. The Phantoms as a whole struggled to score, and the sniping winger was pressing. When he returned late in the season, he spent the rest of the campaign back with his junior team, the Ontario Hockey League's Barrie Colts.įoerster struggled out of the gates for Ian Laperriere's Phantoms squad in nine games this season prior to the injury. The Flyers' 2020 first-round pick (23rd overall) missed most of the 2021-22 season due to an early-season shoulder injury that required surgery.
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