Mats Sundin
Mats Sundin
Mats Johan Sundinis a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League, retiring in 2009. Originally drafted first overall in 1989, Sundin played his first four seasons in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques. He was then traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1994, where he played the majority of his career, serving 11 seasons as team captain. At the end of the 2007–08 season, Sundin had been the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth13 February 1971
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountryCanada
To win a game with that parade to the penalty box requires a good effort and a little luck. If you score six goals in this league, you're going to win nine out of 10 times.
We have to look at what we can control, and we had a lot of chances at the net. ... We can't do any more than we have been, we just have to keep coming with this kind of effort and the wins will come.
We played good for a long stretch. We have to get back to the things we were doing. If we can do that, we can get back to winning some games again.
We need everyone playing very well, we need everyone chipping in something and making a contribution for us to win games like that.
We all know we have to win a lot more games. This is certainly a start.
We were flat and looked disorganized out there. To be able to come back and win is huge. You're going to win some games ugly and we did. We'll take the two points but we realize we didn't have our best game.
Winning Olympic gold against the best players in the world is certainly my greatest moment in my hockey career. But hopefully I can get into the Stanley Cup Finals with Toronto, too.
It's frustrating. Any time you lose, you're looking for answers and you want to be better and you're not happy but it's the National Hockey League and when you're not playing up to your ability, you're not going to win a lot of hockey games and tonight was one of those nights.
It's healthy for the league, having these young, exciting players coming in. As long as you are the winning side, like we are tonight, I don't mind him scoring a couple of goals.
They are one of the hottest teams in the league. We'll take a win any way we can.
Absolutely. If NHLers are eligible and I was selected to go, I'd love to represent Sweden again this winter (in Turin, Italy),
I think we knew with even 25 games to go that it would be dog race to the end. Obviously we have two big games in Montreal, but we have to try and keep winning until the end.
I want to win the Stanley Cup, ... If we're going to bring in some older guys, they better be good, and if we are going to have some younger guys, we want them to be good, too, and become even better. I think it's a time and it's a franchise and a town where I don't think we can really sit back and rebuild. We have to go for it this year again, just the way we've been trying the last few years, and keep having good runs in the playoffs and hopefully get some more experience.
I haven't played a league game in a long, long time but it felt better than I thought it would, ... You just want to win the hockey game when you're coming back.