Peter Forsberg was a winner, known for his hot temper.
Now he reveals the outburst during his career that he regrets.
– I asked a whole bunch to tighten the fenders, Foppa has said.
Peter Forsberg is one of our greatest of all time. He had large parts of his storied career ruined by injuries, but in his prime he was almost unstoppable, and his NHL scoring average ranks with some of the sport’s most prominent.
The magical career
Peter Forsberg won two Stanley Cup titles with the Colorado Avalanche and reaped great success with Tre Kronor during his career. He is often classified, along with Nicklas Lidström and Mats Sundin, as one of Sweden’s greatest, and he really had everything it took to succeed in the world’s best hockey league, the NHL.
Peter Forsberg had the game sense and technique to fool anyone. Foppa also had an incredible physique, and was almost impossible to take the puck off or tackle. But perhaps his main characteristic was his large winner’s skull. Peter Forsberg was known for being able to get “the look”, and then you knew that nothing could stop him, and that he was ready to run over everything and everyone. Forsberg simply hated losing, but it also meant that there were moments during his career when he could go too far.
The outburst he regrets
Peter Forsberg could scold referees and opponents, and once the top cover went off, it didn’t matter at all who was actually on the other side. In an interview with Lasse Granqvist during his time with the Colorado Avalanche, Forsberg was asked if he sometimes regrets some of the attacks he faced out on the ice.
– Well, but not during the time when I was on the ice. Then I didn’t regret it. But yes, I certainly have regretted things, Foppa told me.
Forsberg talks above all about an outburst he regrets – namely when he asked his great idol Håkan Loob to “go to hell”.
– I asked a whole bunch – including my idol, Loob – to tighten the fenders. Then he came forward afterwards and said: “Why do you do that?”. But I still think that even Håkan understood that: “He’s got a bit of a hug anyway, he wants to anyway”. And then it includes what you have to do on the ice to win the games, said Forsberg.
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