It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

He earned nearly a third of his points with a ten-point performance against Japan which set a single-game tournament record. He is being inducted in the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2013. In 1990–91 he scored 102 points in 39 games with the junior team and 17 points in 23 games with the senior team.

As of the end of the 2008–09 NHL season he is the fourth-highest all-time Swedish point scorer in the NHL regular season. Representing Sweden in international play Forsberg competed in three Winter Olympics two World Cups and five World Championships as well as two World Junior Championships and one European Junior Championship. He is being inducted in the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2013.