I think Berger and Farraway are just joking around.

I’d expect them to be stalking him like the NSA tracks terrorists.

Well, since bin Laden still hasn’t been found…

That retraction on Avery was completely incorrect.  I listened to the radio show where he said it, and what he said was that a player on the team confirmed it by saying “I couldn’t believe he said that”.  Maybe he got ahead of himself, but in no way was he wrong.  The retraction was damage control, not the truth.

A few observations:

I, for one, think you are being much too hard on Howard Berger. He has proven again and again that he’s on the cutting edge of breaking news in the NHL. I mean, you need look no further for proof than the photo you yourself posted, with Howard on the left, Bruce Garrioch in the center and Mats on the right.

On a related note, during the video, a comment was made that “this was the most excited they ever saw Mats about a request.” With that thought in mind, it’s much more easy to understand why he’s stayed in Toronto for all these years with the circus that is MLSE. Perhaps Tampa Bay should take a run at him? Or maybe the Blues could bring back that wacky “blue note” jersey and promise to only play calliope music at their home games?

Finally, with it being “The Nutcracker,” I really would have expected a guest appearance by Eddie Belfour.

No matter how horrible some of the Canucks uniforms (excluding the retro blue and green ones) have been, nothing could possibly compare with that getup.  Although for $10 million a year…

It takes an awfully good sport to do that. 

bcrt -- If so, they fooled me and a lot of my emailers. (But I didn’t listen to the entire shows either day, just enough to agree with people who wrote me. So I guess their “joking around” made us all wonder a bit!)

Alan -- Good point. And after this post went online, a couple local radio stations promptly started reporting that two-day old rumor, so maybe they just need a nudge sometimes.

Chris— Thanks for the interpretation. All I meant to say was pretty much what you said… Berger gets a bit ahead of himself. Perhaps I should have used a better example. (There are more than a few...)

YzermanZetterberg -- Smartass. (Yet, funny...!)

Baroque -- Such a good point—that ballet thing makes the Canucks jersey history look awesome by comparison! (and you’re also right about this:  Sundin is clearly a good sport.)

I feel so bad for Mats Sundin. He’s been in the Leafs organization for so long, it seems like he’s lost all joy for the game.

I think that’s why he’s taking so long for him to decide if he wants to come back. He’d rather be off enjoying his life than playing fora team that’s going to struggle to compete. JP Barry surely is urging him to take the two years, but I don’t think he really wants to do it.

As a Wings fan, I love that we got Hossa, but I’ll always wonder if playing with his countrymen for a good organization could have given Sundin the storybook ending he deserved.

What’s wrong with a pony? When I was a little boy in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony...so what’s wrong with that? He was a beautiful pony, and I loved him!

Ponies are nice. But I figure the major selling point is still that $20 million.

Just a note about Berger’s Sundin-in-Vancouver rumor… Elliott Pap of the Vancouver Sun just talked to another host on FAN590 today and clarified that Sundin was NOT in Vancouver this week—he’s still happily vacationing in Sweden.

(This episode of As The Canucks Turn will be back shortly...)

What’s wrong with a pony? When I was a little boy in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony...so what’s wrong with that? He was a beautiful pony, and I loved him!

Well, I’m sure you did. Who wouldn’t love a pony? Who wouldn’t love a person that had a pony?

>> YOU, you said so!

I’m sure at the time in Poland, they were very common. They were probably like compact cars.

Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country?

Who figures and immigrant’s gonna have a pony?

does Ponikarovsky have a pony? Signed, just curious.

Why would Sundin give up one woeful team to come to one that is even worse?

I think our meddling owners will decimate the Canucks in short order.

We are heading for last place this year.  Our coach is being held onto so he can be fired in October when they have lost 10 in a row.

The
pony bit is a Seinfeld reference?