Peter Forsberg showed superb timing and a flair for the dramatic even before he made his NHL debut.

Forsberg played his first NHL game on Jan. 21, 1995. But his grand entrance onto the world hockey stage came the previous year when he scored the gold-medal winner in a shootout for Sweden at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.

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