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
It means a lot to Swedish hockey. I think this generation of players, we are getting older, and this is probably our last chance, so it's great.
This is my last Olympics and it is an amazing way to go out.
I've felt pretty good the last month, both physically and skating, but for me, it's more about timing and bearing down around the net. Tonight, I was more patient with the puck.
It was disappointing how last night ended up. Still, we should have had a better effort than we did tonight.
It would be nice for the last game of the season at least to have our full lineup.
For us older players probably playing our last Olympics, it was great to put it all together.
The way we were playing over the last two months, it could have been anyone to sit out. I know Tie, and he'll bounce back from this and work as hard as always.
There's so much at stake for us. We have to make sure to help out and keep the puck out of our net. We've done that a lot better the last three games.
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.