We've now entered the realm of the absurd in the Peter Forsberg Sweepstakes. After his agent Don Baizley told every NHL team that was still in the running for the porcelain Swede to get on with their lives rather than stake their deadline strategy on his wonky (great word) foot, Forsberg has mixed that message. He told Swedish national broadcaster SVT that "the foot doesn't feel 100 [percent], but there is still one week left until the deadline." Good Lord. More from Chuck Gormley of The Sporting News: Forsberg continues to skate with Modo of the Swedish Elite League and there remains a possibility, albeit a slight one, that he could sign with an NHL team at the deadline in hopes that his surgically reconstructed right foot will feel closer to 100 percent by early March. "(Forsberg's agent) Don Baizley told me Peter was not confident his foot was good enough to work this year," Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said Tuesday. "He didn't say Peter was 100 percent not confident. Cryptically or not, he left the door open for Peter to come back."More from the Winnipeg Sun, which nearly used the same headline I did. Wait, does this mean Schultz's Foppa letter on BMR was a fabrication? Even the part about "the complimentary blackjack and hooker parties?"
