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Just like old times for Forsberg, Avs?
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Monday, February 25, 2008 | 05:06 PM ET
By Scott Morrison
Well, at least Peter Forsberg finally made up his mind.
The gifted, and oft-times gimpy, forward has decided he will play again this season and Monday signed with the Colorado Avalanche, for whom he once helped win a Stanley Cup.
This, of course, comes exactly one week after Forsberg announced that his skate/foot problems were still preventing him from being 100% and that is was "unlikely" he would return to the NHL this season.
But never say never, right?
Later last week Forsberg suggested maybe there was still time to get back. Philadelphia Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said the door was still open a crack. Indeed, both were right, although the door that was still opened led to the Avalanche, who just enhanced their playoff chances with the return from injury of Joe Sakic, Paul Stastny and now Forsberg.
Now, it remains to be seen how well Forsberg will play. Or for how long.
But the signing was a no-brainer for the Avs, who have hung in the playoff hunt despite a rash of injuries. All it has cost them is cash.
If Forsberg plays well, it's a huge win. If he has to shut it down again, it will be disappointing but they didn't have to surrender anything but money to get him, so nothing ventured, nothing gained.
And with Mats Sundin off the market, getting Forsberg is big simply because it means a handful of contenders aren’t going to be able to get a top six forward.
As for Holmgren, who Flyers have lost 10 straight, he tried hard to get Tomas Kaberle from the Maple Leafs but was rebuffed. He has interest in Sundin, but that's not going to happen, and he believed the Flyers were the frontrunners for Forsberg. Not so much.
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Scott Morrison, the recipient of the Hockey Hall of Fameís 2006 Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award, has been covering hockey for 25 years. The Toronto native began his career at the Toronto Sun in 1979. After spending more than 11 years as a hockey writer and columnist at the paper, Morrison became Sports Editor in 1991 and led the section to being named one of North America's top-ten sports sections in 1999 - the first sports section in Canada to receive the AP Sports Editors North American Award. Scott, a former two-term president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, joined Rogers Sportsnet in 2001 as Managing Editor, Hockey, and is currently both a commentator on Hockey Night in Canada and a columnist for CBC.ca.
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