In A World of Sports

This isn’t entirely shocking news.  Peter Forsbery has signed a one-year contract to return to the NHL this season.  This annoucement comes only a couple weeks after Forsberg asked his agent to tell teams he is likely not going to return.  Interesting…

So Foppa goes back to the team he began his NHL career with and enjoyed most of his success.  If Colorado were healthy they’d have a pretty good club.  Sakic, Smyth, Stastny, Brunette, Hejduk, Svatos, Wolski and now you add Forsberg, on forward.  Unfortunately health has eluded this club for much of the season.  So the Forsberg experiment may either be boom or bust.

It’s really hard to say what Forsberg can still bring to the table.  I don’t know how many people have actually seen him skate during his rehabilitation.  What is interesting is Colorado managed to get him on board for only the rest of the season, at a large $5 million, but if he doesn’t pan out this year they have no further commitment to him.  Forsberg was looking for at least a 2 year deal, so this deal isn’t really that bad.  I hope Forsberg can still bring it, when in his prime (and healthy) he was consistently one of the top 5 players in the game.  I will do everything in my power to watch his first game back as an Av and report back what I judge to be his ability, which will be the most accurate assessment you’ll get, period.