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Msun is exactly right. I know someone who is tight with Mats' agent and he said Mats was totally blindsided when he essentially found out through the press that he was traded and had 24 hours to decide if he wanted to agree to waive and become a Hab. Kicked in the nuts is exactly how he felt. God, Fletcher's short reign of terror pisses me off more and more as time goes on. And to think, the centre piece of that Sundin trade was going to be Chris f-ing Higgins. Christ.
 
exactly what i figured.

fletcher made the trade then tried to use the press to coerce sundin into accepting. it was ridiculous and an awful slap in the face to a guy who didn't deserve it.

like i said, the fact that sundin hasn't been back speaks volumes as to the divorce between mats and the leafs being messy.
 
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Marc Savard admitted to @FriedgeHNIC on air that he had agreed to waive no-trade for Ottawa and Toronto last summer...
 
msun30 said:
exactly what i figured.

fletcher made the trade then tried to use the press to coerce sundin into accepting. it was ridiculous and an awful slap in the face to a guy who didn't deserve it.

like i said, the fact that sundin hasn't been back speaks volumes as to the divorce between mats and the leafs being messy.
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Theres two sides to every story. Mats has to own up to his part in this. He knew even before the deadline of 08' that he wasnt certain he wanted to play again, he clearly stated he didnt want to be a rental player either (his words). Now, if Sundin truly wanted what was best for the leafs, he would have waived his NTC and allowed the team to get assets for him, and if he TRULY wanted to be a leaf, he could have came back as a free agent. But no, he chose to be selfish, and he turned out to be a hyopcrite (he followed the $ to Vancouver, and became the exact same thing he said he didnt want to be which is a rental player). Did Fletcher handle this situation the best? No, he should have kept this dispute behind closed doors, but Mats didnt do himself or the team any favours either.
 
Savard was invisible tonight.... how do they have him in the line up if the trade for Sturm hasn't gone through.

I hate how the NHL enforcement of the cap is non existent. It is so easy to circumvent the cap.
 
Hoss said:
Savard was invisible tonight.... how do they have him in the line up if the trade for Sturm hasn't gone through.

I hate how the NHL enforcement of the cap is non existent. It is so easy to circumvent the cap.
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Sturms not in the lineup, still out. They nearly had a deal in place with the kings, but the kings looked into his medical history, and smartly declined the deal.
 
Even Sundin as he is now, would be great for the Leafs. I am sure he was jerked around by MLSE. Perhaps IF they had approached him re:trading him as a rental and let him in on the action, he might have relented.

As it was, him coming back the following season as just that, a rental player, hurt everyone, including him. Except in the pocketbook.
 
Sundin screwed the Leafs over royally.. That's not loyalty - that's being selfish. As a fan I'm being selfish as well. We want what's best for the club and Sundin nixed that.

He's probably staying away from Toronto over his embarassment.
 
how did he screw them?

he wanted to stay... and they tried to engineer a trade against his wishes.

sundin didn't owe it to the leafs to rebuild the team. that's a silly notion.

besides.. they wanted to trade sundin for grabovski and higgins. so at the end of the day the only difference right now is the 2nd and 5th we traded for grabovski.
 
msun30 said:
how did he screw them?

he wanted to stay... and they tried to engineer a trade against his wishes.

sundin didn't owe it to the leafs to rebuild the team. that's a silly notion.

besides.. they wanted to trade sundin for grabovski and higgins. so at the end of the day the only difference right now is the 2nd and 5th we traded for grabovski.
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This.
 
sir pyscho sexy said:
This.
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http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/433971

Well according to this article Fletcher and Co reached out to Sundin about returning as a leaf, he even went as far as going into detail with Sundin about the re-haul off the front office in order to tempt Sundin to come back. Looks like Sundin declined, and chose to go via free agency. Now ask yourselves this, if Fletcher really wanted to push Sundin out the door, why make a strong effort to bring him back?
 
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