Forsberg Named To Team Sweden

Team Sweden 2010 includes 13 returning players from the 2006 Torino Olympics gold medal championship team, including Peter Forsberg.

The team is headlined by goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, defensemen Nicklas Lidstrom, Tobias Enstrom and Mattias Ohlund, and forwards Henrik Zetterberg, Daniel and Henrik Sedin and Nicklas Backstrom.

Despite very limited play in recent years, Forsberg was included on Sweden's 23 man provisional roster. Now that does not necessarily mean he will play in Vancouver. Unlike previously Olympics, the rosters are not set in stone until the day before the first puck drop. Should Team Sweden decide Forsberg just is not healthy enough to play, they could parachute someone else in.

Two other Swedish Elite League players were named to the team - goaltender Stefan Liv and defenseman Magnus Johansson.

Here is the full roster. Curiously, Alex Edler was not named to the team.

Quick Analysis - Sweden should challenge for a podium spot. With Lundqvist in net, anything can happen.