Is Sundin to blame? ?

Question

What up with Sundin? Ok.. it's one thing to not be sure if you want to retire (i/e last year Scotty and Teemu of the Ducks and Sakic this year) and handcuff the team you play for, but Sundin is literally keeping at least a half dozen teams on a string that is effecting many possible moves that will follow after/if he does sign with someone.

How long do the interested teams wait before making other deals and being that the Leafs didn't qualify for the playoffs shouldn't be able to make a decision by now? Does Vancouver still think this guy is worth $10m a year!! Should he publically @ least state what teams he would play for? I am starting to lose respect for this guy.

Answer 1

Actually, Mats has stated publicly that he wants to play for the Rangers if he doesn't retire.

Answer 2

Mats told us all last year that at this point in his life...it wasn't about the money and that he wants to retire a Make Belief. So what is the issue?? He told us his intensions last year....was Mats...lying to us?? Hmmmmmmmm??

Answer 3

Mats is making up his mind if he wants to play again or not. Vancouver can take their money and invest it wherever they wish. Maybe they are still holding on to the Sundin wish is that nobody else wants to go there. Even Burnaby Joe (hometown boy) doesn't want to play there.

This isn't even a Favre type situation. No one has to hold a spot for him if he doesn't retire. He can play wherever he wants providing he gets an offer. Right now Toronto has cap space and a spot on the first line. Montreal will make space and will find a place with Koivu. New York (Rangers) will make room by shedding salary. Ottawa will move money to sign him in a heart beat.

When he decides whether he plays or not the decision will be within the day. It won't be a Forsberg Soap Opera.

Training camps don't start for a couple of weeks. If Mats signs he will be in better shape than 90% of the other players so the only hold up will be to the fantasy players, and they don't really matter.

Answer 4

Okay I am so sick of people stating that he screwed the Leafs.

The bottom line is this:

Sundin has earned his right to make decisions his way.  He has worked HARD as a leaf and at some points even strapped the team on his back and (as Joe Bowen puts it) dragged the team by their bootstraps to try and get them through.

All the teams interested in him obviously want him, but are prepared with plan B if they don't, and if not, they're extremely unorganized.  He didn't s***w anyone.  He did it his way, and he has earned the right to do so.

Sundin has made his mind up already, it just hasn't gone public.

Answer 5

He is not forcing these teams to wait for him to make a decision before they try to sign other players, that is their choice.  He doesn't owe the NHL or the TML anything and has earned the right to determine his own future.  Fans who are bitter about it need to get over themselves.

Answer 6

sundin screwed over the leafs, last year they wanted to trade him and he wouldn't agree to a trade and said how much he wanted to stay in toronto with his family etc, now that he's a free agent he doesn't want to stay with the leafs, he could've at least helped the leafs by agreeing to a trade last year and he could've went to the red wings and still be in the same position now...i used to respect mats alot but not now after he stabbed the keafs