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Top 5 Reasons Sundin Prefers the Canucks to the Habs
by Alanah McGinley on 07/14/08 at 02:35 PM ET
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Mike Boone at Habs Inside/Out posted this over the weekend:
If Mats Sundin plays hockey this season it will be as a member of the Montreal Canadiens.
Why?
Because it makes sense. And Sundin is a sensible guy from Sweden, a sensible social democracy where people drive Volvos and go to Ingmar Bergman movies and learn to play smart hockey.
Spare me. Ingmar Bergman movies are the answer to the Jeopardy question, “What is the most drab and depressing thing you can think of?”
Sundin will sign in Vancouver because it’s exciting and interesting. Don’t believe me? On any given night anything can happen…
Top 5 Reasons the Canucks are the Most Exciting Option For Sundin:
- The coach is liable to pound you in the press at any random moment.
- The Sedins will confuse the hell out of him for at least a year—it’ll be fun to speak Swedish but it shall provide no advantage when getting to know the Double Mint twins. (Sundin likes a challenge.)
- The Canucks have Jeff Cowan (thus, women may be removing bras at some point and throwing them at you; that’s gotta be a deal maker…) [YouTube]
- World-class goalies are liable to get stuck on the toilet during playoff overtimes. (Now that’s excitement.)
- It would send the Toronto media into a total meltdown if the Canucks earned their first Stanley Cup on Sundin’s back. Good times for everyone. Especially Sundin.
How can you beat that kind of fun, Montreal? It’s no contest.
We may suck, but geezus… we know how to do it in style. 
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*cartoon courtesy of Offside Sports
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it would be like calgary winning the cup with ryan smyth (oh i got a little giddy just writing that)
Ha!
I get your point, but my theory is this: that they’ve had Sundin around for a bazillion years and gotten nowhere. Then Vancouver - the other team which has gone around 40 years without a Cup - scoops him and wins it… that would be painful.
I know Toronto would hate Montreal winning with Sundin, but I figure that they’re already somewhat accustomed to the Habs embarrassing them over the last 4 decades. At least they’ve always been able to feel superior to the Canucks!
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 07/14/08 at 03:38 PM ET
very good point.
I guess that’s why you write blogs and i just read them 
Posted by philb on 07/14/08 at 04:06 PM ET
Ah shite, I thought you had 5 serious reasons!
I like your list though. Will the Bra-barian every go on a role like that again? I missed the bras last year :(
Phib almost has a point though. Sundin winning the Cup with the Habs would start a damned riot. Mats would have to arrive and leave the ACC in a bullet-proof vehicle!
Wouldn’t “going to the Swedish Touch Massage joint with all the Swedish Canucks make your top 5 Alanah? Hell, they could run the place!
Posted by Zandberg from Smithers on 07/14/08 at 04:30 PM ET
Philb— I just like to infect the world with my theories!
Zandberg— Do you think 5 serious reasons even exist, Sean?!
But your point about the Swedish Touch massage parlor is a good one (I’m getting old… I forgot about that). And also, a quick search on Google turned up another ‘service’ provided by a Swedish touch that might be persuasive… 
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 07/14/08 at 04:47 PM ET
“If” Mats decides to come to Van I look forward to that first Leafs/Vancouver game at GM place. Especially if Mats were to score a goal. A solid deke around McCabe for the game winner would be nice. God? Are you listening to this? Make it happen.
Posted by TriniD from VanC on 07/14/08 at 06:33 PM ET
Trini, that might be even more fun to watch if the game was being played in Toronto. On Hockey Night in Canada.
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 07/15/08 at 11:10 AM ET
Hands up: who’s already setting money aside for a Canucks Sundin jersey and a ticket to Toronto?
Posted by philb on 07/15/08 at 12:56 PM ET
Hands up: who’s already setting money aside for a Canucks Sundin jersey and a ticket to Toronto?
think they’d let him wear #13? or do you think Mike Brown will cling on to it for dear life as a remnant of his NHL career?
Posted by LOUiE from Cowtown on 07/15/08 at 02:22 PM ET
Especially if Mats were to score a goal. A solid deke around McCabe for the game winner would be nice.
...if the game was being played in Toronto. On Hockey Night in Canada.
Even if someone isn’t a fan of either team, that would be so unbelievably, insanely, amazingly hilarious.
The confusion of the crowd reaction would be something to behold.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/15/08 at 04:12 PM ET
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sorry, but montreal winning the cup with sundin would cause far more grief in toronto than if vancouver did the same. it would be like calgary winning the cup with ryan smyth (oh i got a little giddy just writing that). if montreal won the cup with sundin, it would cause mass suicides and riots. they would burn toronto to the ground. and then montreal. and then ottawa and buffalo for good measure. it almost makes me hope that montreal wins the sundin sweepstakes. can you imagine? and then harold ballard will crawl out of the grave and reclaim his rightful place as owner of the most compulsively futile organization in professional sports.
Posted by philb on 07/14/08 at 03:26 PM ET