Peter Forsberg Cuts His Comeback Short, The NHL's Brett Favre

According to multiple sources around the NHL, long-time Colorado Avalanche great Peter Forsberg will retire again after playing just two games with the club this season.

Forsberg attempted a well-publicized comeback and had the hockey world by the ear.

I said in a previous article about how he was pulling another Brett Favre-type move and I took jabbing from many the fan saying that he wasn’t like that, he was different.

Like a jaded lover left at the altar, who is like Brett Favre now?

In the upcoming press conference scheduled for later today to announce his retirement, Forsberg will say that he is not healthy enough or that the sport is too fast. 

"I will make a last, last, last try [to make an NHL comeback]," Forsberg told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in November 2010.

The truth is he loves the game and doesn’t want to lose it.  Just like Favre, Foppa wants to prove to himself as much as everyone else that he could still do it at the highest level.

Business Insider reports, "Evidently, Forsberg, who has had several lingering injuries over the last few years, decided that he was no longer able to compete at the level he was accustomed to, and has ended his NHL career for good (we think)."

Forsberg realizes that he can’t anymore.

What shouldn’t happen is for his legacy to be tainted like Brett Favre’s has.  He may be doing what Favre did but Forsberg never hurt franchises like Favre.

Forsberg wasn’t a key piece to the Avalanche team and if he had played the rest of the season it would’ve been icing on the cake.

Throughout his whole career, Peter Forsberg has been one of the best two-way forwards and will go down in history as one of the all-time best.

In 708 games in the NHL, Forsberg has 249 goals and 636 assists for a total of 885 points. 

The real testament to his ability to defend as a forward was in the amazing +238 plus/minus statistic.  Plus/minus is the measure of how many goals are scored when a player is on the ice, for his team and against.

Forsberg is always going to be a great NHL player in a lot of people’s minds and let’s hope this is the end to it all.  If he tries another comeback, then people will start considering him a total joke.