NHL News and Notes: Sundin to decide soon
Ashley Gallant | National Hockey League
Jul 22, 01:27 PM | Hype this story!
Sundin to make decision soon
A Swedish paper reported last weekend that Mats Sundin had signed with the Vancouver Canucks, and Sundin’s reps were quick to deny those rumours.
Sundin himself broke his silence and told the paper, Aftonbladet, that he will make a decision soon.
“I will make a decision in the end of July or beginning of August,” Sundin said. “If I am going to play it’s for the full season and I want to be there from the beginning of August.”
There seems to be three teams looking to sign Sundin: Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto.
“The Maple Leafs are not out of the picture if I decide to play,” he told Aftonbladet. “They made me a very good offer, even if it isn’t even close to what the Canucks have offered. But I have been in Toronto for 13 seasons and it is like home to me. Nothing is out of the picture. I got a very good offer from them as well as one from Montreal. But Vancouver’s contract was in a class by itself if you look only at the money.”
Leafs will honour former captains
The Toronto Maple Leafs announced that they will honour Wendel Clark and Doug Gilmour this coming season by raising their numbers to the rafters of the ACC.
Clark will be honoured in a pre-game ceremony on November 22, when the Chicago Blackhawks are in town. Gilmour’s ceremony will take place before the Leafs’ game against the Penguins on January 31st.
Clark’s number 17 and Gilmour’s 93 will join the numbers of Syl Apps, Ted Kennedy, Walter ‘Turk’ Broda, Johnny Bower, Tim Horton, George Armstrong, Charlie Conacher, Frank Mahovlich, Darryl Sittler, Clarence ‘Hap’ Day, Leonard ‘Red’ Kelly and Borje Salming.
The Maple Leafs rarely retire the numbers of former players, but choose to honour the players by raising banners with their numbers to the rafters. Historically, the team only retires the numbers of distinguished players who have died or had their careers cut short by tragic circumstances while they were Maple Leafs. Irvine (Ace) Bailey (No. 6) and Bill Barilko (No. 5) are the two players who fit this description.
For Hartsburg, “accountability” is the word of the season
Craig Hartsburg is preparing for his first season as the head coach of the Ottawa Senators, and the word that keeps coming up in his interviews is ‘accountability’.
“Accountability is something I expect on and off the ice,” Hartsburg told NHL.com. “It has to do with conditioning, a team-first attitude and work ethic. Those are the areas we want to hold the players accountable in. If they come to camp ready to work and they’re playing with passion, then they’re doing what they’re supposed to and that’s what I mean by accountability.”
It’s about time someone holds those guys accountable.
Kings name new coach
The Los Angeles Kings named Terry Murray their new head coach last Thursday. The team is hoping that a coach with Murray’s experience can help this young team move forward.
With young forwards Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown and Alexander Frolov, defencemen Jack Johnson and Drew Doughty, as well as goalie Jonathan Bernier in the system, there’s no telling what the Kings could be in a couple of years.
Comments
Pens1967
Jul 22, 02:29 PM
To be, or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. — Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! — Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.
Dabich
Jul 22, 08:19 PM
How…verbose!
lol
but fitting!
Pens1967
Jul 22, 08:29 PM
I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t resist posting Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. (In 9th grade English, we had to memorize either Romeo’s or Juliette’s famous speech.)
Dabich
Jul 23, 06:45 AM
Haha, no need to apologize, silly.
It was a fitting reply to Ashley’s great post.
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