Some Reactions to the Sundin Signing

by polylogue | December 19, 2008 at 07:38 pm

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Some reactions to Mats Sundin signing with the Vancouver Canucks. The so-called experts are not impressed and some are not expecting much from the 37-year-old Swede. Quotes below from the Vancouver Sun.

"What is galling is this whole process has revealed Sundin to be the exact entity he insisted he wasn't 10 months ago -- a hired gun. Nothing more. Nothing less." - Scott Burnside, ESPN

"Sundin will undoubtedly find the travel more rigorous in the west and the level of play will be higher and the speed faster than he has become accustomed to playing in the east. How quickly he adjusts to his new surroundings and lifts the level of his game will go a long way toward determining how successful he and the Canucks are this season." - Ken Campbell, The Hockey News

"The last time the Canucks won a lottery like this, meanwhile, they landed 36-year-old Mark Messier in the summer of 1997. That didn’t turn out so well, did it?" - Damien Cox, Toronto Star