Feb 21 2009
Lowlifes To Boo Sundin
For all those dickless suit-wearing assholes that plan on booing Mats Sundin when he returns to the ACC in Toronto tonight, you should be ashamed of yourselves. I mean c’mon, the guy gave your lifeless team 13 years of his life and never once did he complain when management repeatedly stumbled to build a winner around him, or when Doug Gilmour, Phil Housley, and Ron Francis were brought in well past their collective prime for a “Cup run”.
Sundin defended himself in this morning’s Toronto Star, which he shouldn’t have to do in the first place:
I honestly don’t understand it, this (accusation) of being a traitor. I certainly don’t look at myself that way. When I stayed with the team at the deadline, it was because I didn’t think it was appropriate for the captain to leave. We were still fighting for a playoff spot and I honestly believed, at that point, it could happen.”
The only traitors in this situation are the back-stabbing fans that are going to boo their once celebrated hero, rather than stand up and applaud the guy for keeping a franchise relevant while management had failed to.
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You hammered that.
If booing over the refusal to waive a NTC is the standard, then why don’t they boo Kaberle every time he touches the puck. I mean, they could have had Jeff Carter had he not refused to budge on his NTC.
Love him or hate him, Brian Burke made a point on The Score with Kouleas: players with NTC’s have in one way or another earned them whether they deserve it or not.
As a Sabres fan, I generally can’t stand anything Leafs……but Sundin always had my respect. He plays the game the way it should be played - team first, individual second. When he wouldn’t waive the NTC last season, I respected him all that much more for not bailing on his team. A classy individual who deserves any honor that comes his way.
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