On the same weekend Peter Forsberg is being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, fellow Swede Borje Salming was welcomed into Legends Row with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nice symmetry there.

Borje Salming is honored in a ceremony on Nov. 11. Getty Images. From 1974-75 — Salming’s sophomore season — through 1979-80, the Swede was the only defenseman to be named either first-team ...

Borje Salming was one of the league’s first foreign players to truly be accepted into the game. More from NHL NHL Rumors: Legendary Patrice Bergeron retires, which 3 players could be next to ...

Before Borje, there were but 24 players born outside of Canada, ... Though Vancouver forward Daniel Sedin grew up in Sweden in the late 1980s idolizing Mats Sundin and Peter Forsberg, ...

BORJE: THE IMPACT. The Red Wings, Senators, ... -- Hall of Fame forward Peter Forsberg-- “I think he set the tone not only for Swedes, but Europeans the way he played the game.

He played 1,148 regular-season games and posted 637 assists and 787 points, and if it weren’t for him, elite Swedish players such as Nicklas Lidstrom and Peter Forsberg might never have embarked ...

During the Hockey Hall of Fame induction weekend, legendary Toronto Maple Leafs' defenceman Borje Salming gave everyone an extra reason to smile. When asked about fellow Swede, Peter Forsberg, who ...