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Peter and Forsberg
Peter Forsberg
** Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
Örnsköldsvik is the birthplace of many world-famous ice hockey players, including Peter Forsberg, Markus Näslund, Niklas Sundström, and twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin.
In order to acquire Lindros ' rights, the Flyers parted with six players, trading Steve Duchesne, Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Chris Simon, a 1993 first round draft pick ( Jocelyn Thibault ), a 1994 first round draft pick ( Nolan Baumgartner ), and $ 15 million to Quebec.
Replacing the high-profile names of Amonte, LeClair and Roenick were superstar Peter Forsberg, along with defensemen Derian Hatcher and Mike Rathje, as well as several players from the Calder Cup-winning Philadelphia Phantoms.
Simon Gagné | Simon Gagne, placed on a line with Peter Forsberg and Mike Knuble, scored a career high 47 goals during the 2005 – 06 season.
Peter Forsberg replaced Primeau as team captain, but a chronic foot injury developing in last season's Olympics had him in and out of the lineup throughout the season and limited his effectiveness.
On June 30, 1992, he was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for five players, the rights to Swedish prospect Peter Forsberg, two first-round draft picks, and US $ 15 million.
Led by captain Joe Sakic, forward Peter Forsberg, and defenseman Adam Foote on the ice and Pierre Lacroix as the general manager and Marc Crawford as the head coach, the Avalanche became stronger when All-Star Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy joined the team.
With the Cup win, Russians Alexei Gusarov and Valeri Kamensky and Swede Peter Forsberg became members of the Triple Gold Club, the exclusive group of ice hockey players who have won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, and the Stanley Cup.
Peter Forsberg was the league's second highest scorer in the regular season with 91 points ( 25 goals and 66 assists ) and was elected for the league's first all star team.
Patrick Roy, Ray Bourque, and Joe Sakic played for the North America team, who won 14 – 12 against the World team, that featured Milan Hejduk and Peter Forsberg.
After the last game of the series, Peter Forsberg underwent surgery to remove a ruptured spleen and it was announced that he would not play until the following season.
Peter Forsberg was the playoffs scoring leader with 27 points ( 9 goals, 18 assists ).
Peter Forsberg won the Art Ross Trophy for the leading scorer of the regular season, which he finished with 106 points ( 29 goals, 77 assists ).
David Aebischer returned home with Alex Tanguay to play for Swiss club HC Lugano ; Milan Hejduk and Peter Forsberg returned to their former teams in their native countries, HC Pardubice and Modo Hockey.
Peter Forsberg and Adam Foote were lost to free agency to save room in the cap for Joe Sakic and Rob Blake.
A 4 – 2 loss against the Nashville Predators on April 7, with Peter Forsberg assisting the game-winning goal scored by Paul Kariya, knocked Colorado out of the playoff race.
On February 25, 2008, unrestricted free agent Peter Forsberg signed with the Avalanche for the remainder of the 2007 – 08 season.
Former Avs great Peter Forsberg attempted a comeback in the NHL with Colorado midseason.
Gabriel Landeskog, the Avs ' lone representative at the 2012 NHL Awards walked away with the Calder Memorial Trophy joining Chris Drury, Peter Forsberg and Peter Stastny for top rookies in franchise history.
Individually, Naslund was surpassed the same night by Avalanche forwards Peter Forsberg and Milan Hejduk for the Art Ross Trophy and Maurice Richard Trophy, respectively.
Gilmour's dynamic two-way play lead him to becoming one of the only players in history to lead in post-season scoring without making it to the Stanley Cup Finals ; Peter Forsberg would also achieve that feat in 1999 with the Colorado Avalanche.

Peter and playoffs
The Penguins missed the playoffs in 1977 – 78 when their offense lagged, and Larouche was traded for Peter Mahovlich and Peter Lee.
Before the start of the 2005 – 06 season, the Thrashers signed many veteran players in the hopes of making the playoffs, including forwards Peter Bondra, Bobby Holik and Scott Mellanby, defenseman Jaroslav Modry, and goaltender Mike Dunham.
Even with the loss of teammates Peter Forsberg and Adam Foote, Sakic still helped the Avalanche get into the playoffs, where they eventually lost to the Anaheim Ducks in the conference semifinals.
Despite having a strong team with players like Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy, the Avalanche were eliminated quickly in the playoffs by the Edmonton Oilers.
The following season, led by Peter Stastny's 109-point Calder Trophy-winning performance, the Nordiques made the NHL playoffs for the first time, but fell in the best-of-five opening round in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Led by Goulet and Peter Stastny, the Nordiques made the playoffs eight years in a row.
This was because a presentation of Peter Pan starring gynmast Cathy Rigby was booked into the Amphitheatre and thus made the arena unavailable for the playoffs ( see Peter Pan Incident, below ).
The initial series versus New England passed without incident, but the next series would be difficult in more ways than one: the International Amphitheatre had booked a production of Peter Pan, featuring former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby in the title role, and the Amphitheatre would not be available for the playoffs.
Hannan emerged as a premier defenceman during the 2003 – 04 playoffs gaining praise for his performance in shutting down star center Peter Forsberg in the conference semi-final win against Colorado.

Peter and leading
Rome was the leading Patriarchate of the ancient four by virtue of its founding by Saints Peter and Paul and their martyrdom there, not to mention being the political center of the Roman empire at the time.
In the first extended promo leading up to the series ' premiere, voice actor Peter Cullen narrated the back story, evoking memories of Voltron's opening credits.
Peter the Great leading the Russian army in the Battle of Poltava
But the revolt was easily crushed, leading Nicholas to turn away from the Westernization program begun by Peter the Great and champion the doctrine " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality ".
In 1962, the first attempted escape leading to a fatal shooting took the life of Peter Fechter.
In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.
Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth ; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland ; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.
Along with Simon Peter and James the Just he was one of the most prominent early Christian leaders .< ref >" The Canon Debate ," McDonald & Sanders editors, 2002, chapter 32, page 577, by James D. G. Dunn: " James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul, the two other most prominent leading figures Peter < nowiki ></ nowiki > in first-century Christianity "</ ref > Fourteen epistles in the New Testament are traditionally attributed to Paul, although his authorship of seven of the fourteen is questioned by modern scholars.
: At Castrum Fumorense near Alatri in Lazio, the birth of Saint Peter Celestine, who, when leading the life of a hermit in Abruzzo, being famous for his sanctity and miracles, was elected Roman Pontiff as an octogenarian, assumed the name Celestine V, but abandoned his office that same year and preferred to return to solitude.
The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.
Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent filmmaking in Hollywood during the early 1910s, leading up to the release of D. W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation.
" Senior diplomat and Afghanistan expert Peter Tomsen wrote: " The ‘ Lion of Kabul ’ Haq and the ‘ Lion of Panjshir ’ Shah Massoud ... Haq, Massoud, and Karzai, Afghanistan ’ s three leading moderates, could transcend the Pashtun — non-Pashtun, north-south divide.
In 1185 Peter and Asen, leading nobles of supposed and contested Bulgarian, Cuman, Vlach or mixed origin, led a revolt against Byzantine rule and Peter declared himself Tsar Peter II.
In the US, these approaches are associated with the journal International Organization, which, in the 1970s, became the leading journal of international political economy under the editorship of Robert Keohane, Peter J. Katzenstein, and Stephen Krasner.
According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.
He then married his daughter, Ermesinda to Alfonso, the son of Peter of Cantabria, the leading noble at the still-independent Visigothic dukedom of Cantabria.
Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff, Rector at Heidelberg by that time, would resume Derrida's place as: " Beyond the boundaries of philosophy as an academic discipline he was a leading intellectual figure not only for the humanities but for the cultural perception of a whole age.
He frequently wrote for and / or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.
In his 1980 essay The Bilderberg and the West, researcher Peter Thompson argues that the Bilderberg group is a meeting ground for top executives from the world ’ s leading multinational corporations and top national political figures to consider jointly the immediate and long-term problems facing the West.

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