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
I thought we beat ourselves. We have a lot to work to do, that's for sure.
I thought we beat ourselves tonight. All five of their goals came when we had the puck and turned it over.
I believe in my heart that we have a good enough team to make the playoffs and a good enough team to beat Ottawa.
I thought he had a good game. I don't think he beat us all by himself. He made some stops but, overall, I think we lost this game more than they won it.
There's so many games left, our only concern is our own play. We know we can play better than we did in January (3-9-2) and we can beat the teams we need to beat to make it in (the playoffs).
Our only focus from now on is to turn this thing around. We have to get back to playing the way we did. The way we're playing right now, it hasn't even been two weeks. Before that we were playing really good hockey and we could beat any team in the league. We have to climb back to that, and it's going to take all of us in the dressing room. We can't look at the standings right now.
Almost all five goals we had the puck and misplayed. I thought we beat ourselves tonight.
Getting the puck out of our own end is a victory right now.
It's been a long wait for Swedish hockey.
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.
That's exactly what you try to do on the power play - put the puck on the net.
I hope (Canadians) cheer for us. We'll take any support we can get. We're going to need it.
I think we made some progress tonight. If we can keep playing like we did tonight we can turn this thing around.
He is probably the most talented player I've ever played with.