Forsberg was offered chance to play for Flyers

Per TSN, and according to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Peter Forsberg was offered the chance to sign with the Philadelphia Flyers on March 2nd.

“Yeah, it’s true,” Forsberg told Expressen. “But I felt that I wasn’t in good enough shape to go.”

“Obviously it would’ve been cool since I know so many of those guys from my time with the team,” Forsberg told Expressen.

At the time, the Flyers were struggling to stay in the playoff hunt with goaltending questions and injuries to both Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne. Forsberg stated that he had his own injuries to deal with, which prevented him from taking up Mike Paul Holmgren on his offer.

Forsberg still has not decided on a return to the NHL, and you wonder if healthy how much of a difference he would have made for the the Flyers. There’s no doubt his leadership and experience would have been invaluable, but I doubt that his production would have been a difference maker for the Flyers.

He was invisible while playing with Sweden during the Olympics, and is nowhere near the player he was just four or five years ago. Still, Forsberg back on the Flyers would have been a very interesting combination as the team geared up for the playoffs.