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Where Will Sundin Land?
by Paul on 11/07/08 at 08:46 AM ET
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I posed that question via email to a few media types yesterday. Their response follows and I will add to it if I receive anymore responses.
Helene Elliott, columnist for the LA Times,
I’m not sure he knows what he wants to do.
i think Anaheim intrigues him because the Ducks have a legitimate shot at contending this year. But they can’t pay him a lot, so that could drive him away.Tthe Ducks would have to move a lot of bodies to get the cap space…..I’ll be crazy and say Vancouver.
Terry Frei of the Denver Post and ESPN.com,
Put me down for Montreal.
Adam Proteau of the Hockey News,
Sundin? Toronto. Why? Because it makes the least amount of sense for both the player and the team, and that’s more or less the way things have gone for this hockey team the last 40-odd years.
Keivn Allen of USA TODAY,
Anaheim, that’s his best fit and best chance to win a Stanley Cup. But he would have to take less money.
Jim Kelley of Sportsnet and Sports Illustrated,
My choice is the New York Rangers, creditable team, excellent goaltending, big city environment, easy travel, lots of endorsement opportunities, American dollars.
Rangers have a need for a veteran play-making center or centre and though it is New York, it still offers an opportunity to avoid the endless media obsession that he has endured in Toronto for years.
Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Rangers or Leafs. if I can only pick one, I’ll take New York.
added 12:22pm, Craig Custance of the Sporting News,
Montreal: Sundin will want to play with a Stanley Cup contender and will ultimately prefer the lighter travel schedule of an Eastern Conference team which rules out Anaheim and Vancouver. The Canadiens fit the criteria, although I wouldn’t rule out the Rangers either.
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I heard rumors that he wants to be away from the limelight, and go to a small hockey market, where there is minimum media. IF THIS IS TRUE, it pretty much rules out Toronto, Montreal, New York, Detroit and possibly Vancouver. From all the names mentioned, only Anaheim fits the bill. However, he would have to take one heck of a pay cut.
Posted by The Man from SoCal on 11/07/08 at 12:22 PM ET
I heard rumors that he wants to be away from the limelight, and go to a small hockey market, where there is minimum media.
NY isn’t a small hockey market, but with the Giants, Yankees, and even the sad-sack Knicks taking most of the media coverage, you could say there is “minimum media” here, especially compared to Toronto.
That said, how the heck could the Rangers fit him in under the cap? I don’t see anyone helping out by taking some of the big salaries off our hands for next to nothing.
Posted by K24 from NYC on 11/07/08 at 02:24 PM ET
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The question is “Does he want a cash grab or does he want to win a cup?” If its the former, he signs in Vancouver, if its the latter, why not Detroit? From what I see they have almost a mil in cap space, play for the league minimum…win a cup..and call it a career!
Posted by Mac from Canada on 11/07/08 at 09:59 AM ET