With much fan fare, the return of Mats Sundin to Air Canada Center, will be on display Saturday Night. If you've watched TSN, Sportsnet or the Score lately, you already know this since they've been talking about it since the day Sundin signed with the Canucks.
What I am hoping for is that Sundin returns to cheers. Sure all you Leaf fans will tell me "He should have waived his NTC if he really liked Toronto" or "He said he didn't want to be a rental player but he is now" or even the "He represented 10 years of losing in Toronto".
After all those years of Leaf fans saying they hate Sundin or wanted him traded, are you serious? Sundin was the face of the franchise for 13 years, lead the team in scoring every single year (except for 2002-2003 Alex Mogilny), was Toronto's longest serving captain and won the team's first division title since 1938. Oh and he's the team's all-time leading scorer. Needless to say I could go on.
I plead with the Leaf fans to celebrate the return of your team's greatest player. I think that the fans will show the class that is deserved to Sundin, but I understand that there will be boos.
On another note, the Toronto media is figuring out that Pogge is not the real deal. How long until the fans figure it out?
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'Eff Sundin. He was one of the most talented Leafs of all-time, but people remember his playoff contributions differently than they appeared.
He had some solid playoff years, but it was nowhere near the same contributions that were made by a Gary Roberts or Alyn McCauley in seperate playoff runs.
Like other Leaf fans, I was much more upset that:
(a) He didn't own up to the fact that he just didn't want to go anywhere at the time. Instead, he made up a bullshit story about not wanting to be a rental.
(b) If the reports are to be believed, Sundin not waiving his no-trade clause led to others not waiving their no-trade clause. This team could've saved a bunch of money off of the cap by getting rid of Tucker and could've had - again if reports are to be believed - Jeff Carter and a 1st round pick in exchange for one defenceman. This also could've led to NOT having to trade up to get Schenn which would have been nice.
(c) Sundin didn't waive his NTC and we got shit-all in return for him.
Basically he would be fine in my eyes if he either (a) manned-up and admitted he just didn't feel like going anywhere or (b) allowed us to get some kind of asset in return.
If I had been able to afford the exorbinant prices for tickets, I would've booed him.
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