Waiting on Mats - ABA DSS

**RICKSBEACH** · September 1st, 2008

the saga continues

cp..Joe Bowen | Leafs TV Toronto Maple Leafs

Mats Sundin has not made up his mind. This is a recording!! The entire summer has been spent with one false deadline approaching after another as the Leaf Captain decides his future.

He now has a fiancé who is part of the decision making process and a 37 year old body trying to tell him what to do. I honestly think the Brett Farve situation in Green Bay is also weighing in on the decision. If he retires I am sure he doesn’t want to go through the same situation finding out a few weeks latter that it was a mistake. But like the Green Bay Packers the Maple Leafs must move on and plan for a future without their marquee player.

So if Mats does not return, who would be the next captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs? There are a number of candidates, not the least of which are two young men of which much will be expected of in the absence of #13. Both Alex Steen and Mat Stajan would make excellent captains of a young team rebuilding for the future. Both understand the pressures of the position and have been around long enough to watch one of the best ever handle the Toronto market and what is expected of a leader in the dressing room.

My gut feeling is that Mats is going to retire and if he plays at all it might be back in Sweden. I do not have a deadline for this information.

**just4ufolks** · September 1st, 2008

M A T

Here we go, the Charity Game is a comforting thought or what??
His agent has been reporting regularly but without substance..simply repeating what has been taged as
OLD NEWS..he has added a
new dimension to indecision
here
??
add Niedemayer's wait it out approach to d mix
??

"It's possible," Barry said. "It's not something that's preferable even to him. Mats has said in the past it's not something he is totally comfortable with, but at the same time you can't say that until you're in that position yourself. Niedermayer went through this and needed time and perhaps Mats is in the same situation."

Now how does that help
??
even $20 mill from Vancouver didn't help-i suppose

Joe Sakic is already back - may be some inspiration there
or
thinking of the man they call "THE CAPTAIN" in HOCKEYTOWN n around d league - u guessed STEVEeeeee from Red Wings folks
just say -so long -thx 4d memories
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stay tuned ppl