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NefCanuck,Jan 24 2008, 09:43 PM Wrote:

crazikev,Jan 24 2008, 03:49 PM Wrote:

NefCanuck,Jan 24 2008, 10:54 AM Wrote:

darkpuppet,Jan 24 2008, 08:55 AM Wrote:

paolo,Jan 24 2008, 09:12 AM Wrote:Get rid of Sundin... thats what they should have done, TRADED him.
they only got rid of fergie due to public outcry, now they gotta pay his ass and he sits at home..
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time after time, I hear people say this... but time after time, it's Sundin scoring the winning goal...

so why the big push to get rid of him?
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Don't ask me, frankly I think Sundin is about the only attractive thing that the Leafs have as a team to try and lure free agents here.

Trade Sundin away and short of getting back either Crosby, Nash or Ovechkin in exchange Toronto becomes a dead zone worse than even Edmonton allegedly is IMO.

No, keep Sundin, sign him to a two year deal and pump his mojo into getting us some free agent talent come July...

As for comparing him to other Leafs captains, that's hardly fair, each sucessful captain of the Maple Leafs, suceeded because they excelled in different areas... Wendel scoring like Sundin? -pfft- not likely. Gilmour fighting like Wendel? -pfft- as if...

No, IMO, each sucessful captain had/has their niche and works it...

NefCanuck
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The reason we should trade him now is becasue he is worth something, and we could get a really good YOUNG player for him, and some draft picks, apparently the next couple or years are supposed to be really good. Make a trade like the Niewendyk-Iginla trade, both teams prospered. Should stop thinking about short term fixes and think about long term gain.

Sundin will not be in the NHL in 2 or 3 years, and we will have nothing to show for him, this is the highest his stock is going to be, now is the time to sell.

Pleaseeeeeee you don't want more old washed up free agents coming here, you don't want the same crap for the past 10 years do you?

They should get rid of a lot of crap, tank the season get a really high draft pick for a couple years in a row, then bam stanley cup! The current strategy of picking all these free agents isn't working and it hasn't worked for a long time for us.
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You forget an important point though, with the new collective barganing agreement the age that a player hits unrestricted free agency is dropping every year at this point until at the end of the deal the age is going to be a mere 26 years old. So no longer will the Leafs be bidding on veterans one banana peel away from the IR...

Problem is, no one wants our crap... So what do the Leafs do? Stock the Marlies with the flotsam or keep playing them until they either demand a trade or smarten up? Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

NefCanuck
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Im sure some other team would be interested in Jason Blake, John Pohl, Sundin, Tucker, Coli(try to get rid of him before he has 1 leg left :( ), Gill and please trade Woz to anyone that will take him, just get rid of the guy. :lol: .

I am sure that other teams would be interested in these players.