Peter Forsberg
Sportskool Hockey coach Peter Forsberg
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Puck Handling
Coach Martin teaches the importance of puck control. Control the puck. Control the game.
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Goaltending
Coach Martin & Mike Richter offer up tips & drills to help keep the puck out of the net.
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Peter Forsberg Interview
NHL Superstar Peter Forsberg of the Philadelphia Flyers sits down for a unique Q & A.
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Two on One
Kris Draper tells you how to execute & defend the 2-on-1 break.
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Backward Skating
Coach Martin shows you why skating backwards is a key to your hockey skills
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Balance
Adam Graves calls balance a key to successful hockey. Improve yours with these drills.
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Checking
Adam Graves offers up the keys to giving and receiving clean checks.
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Combination Drills
Coach Martin offers up a set of drills to help make you a complete hockey player.
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Faceoffs
Kris Draper teaches you to win faceoffs on both ends of the ice everytime.
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Multi Station Drills
Coach Martin offers up a set of drills that will take your game to the next level.
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One on One
Adam Graves & Curtis Joseph give tips on scoring and defending on the 1-on-1 break.
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Pass Control
Coach Martin teaches you the keys to handling offline passes with your hands or skates.
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Practice
Coach Martin coaches the coaches on structuring your team's practice sessions.
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Shooting
Adam Graves & Kris Draper talk about the keys to shooting. Learn how to shoot to score
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Specialty Skills
Adam Graves offers up tips to improve your overall hockey game in this advanced lesson.
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Three on One
Adam Graves & Mike Richter teach you the keys to a successful 3-on-1 break.
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Turning
Coach Martin teaches you to improve your overall hockey play by improving your turning.
Few goals in the history of hockey have been more celebrated.
Peter Forsberg put his first stamp - literally - on hockey in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, with a backhander past Canadian goalie Corey Hirsch. The 20-year-old's shootout goal - later immortalized on a Swedish postage stamp - gave the hockey-crazed country a gold medal and the world a taste of what it would soon see in the NHL: the best player on the planet.
Forsberg came over to the North America the next season, and the center has been the NHL's most dynamic and constant scoring force since. He won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1994-95 with the Quebec Nordiques. The next season he had 86 assists and 106 points as the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup.
Forsberg's managed to keep playing like a superstar while fighting two unlikely enemies: the league and his own body. As NHL scoring started eroding in the late 1990s, he still piled up points through the clutching and grabbing. He had 97 points in 1998-99, and led the league with 106 in 2002-03.
But he has rarely been healthy since his first two seasons. In one eight-year stretch he missed 237 games, the equivalent of almost three seasons. He missed the entire 2001-02 regular season after he had his spleen removed the previous spring. In typical Forsberg fashion, he came back for the playoffs led the NHL with 18 assists and 27 points in 20 games. In 2002-03, led the league with 106 points and won was named NHL MVP.
- Born July 20, 1973 in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden
- Has won two Stanley Cups (1995-96, 2000-01) and two gold medals (1994, 2006)
- Currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers, the team that originally drafted him sixth overall in 1991
- In 2002-03, he led the league with 106 points and was named NHL MVP.
