We interrupt regular Habs Inside/Out programming for news from Sweden, where H I/O special correspondent Hakan Weezin reports Mats Sundin will DEFINITELY make a decision about his hockey future by Labour Day.
I think it's time to give up the Mats watch. He won't be signing with the Habs.
Why you ask? If he truely wanted to be a challenger, to win the cup, he would have accepted a trade at the deadline.
No, I think Mats is afraid. Afraid of going to a team who has potential, because then he'll be under more scrutiny then he was in Toronto. Leafs missed the playoffs AGAIN, oh well that's because of the GM and the teachers union, and those meddling owners, Mats is a god, if only he had a team around him.
Well, Mats is afraid of having a team around him now, because what if it fails? I think Mats wants to go out knowing he was a great surrounded by incompetance than as someone who could have gone all the way but "missed it by that much".
Well,
Labour Day's better than nothin'!
Think he'll sign?
I think he will.
Hey, who are you guys?! Hey, get away from me with those nets! What's that needle?! Heyyyy....
Uuuuhh....
Ain't looking good folks! Bob Gainey has engaged the remaining members of Led Zeppelin to play at his next press conference. The song for that appearance they were practicing today. Here is a live clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBMVg9L7Q0
About I grew up in Park Extension, within walking distance of Dickie Moore's Dairy Queen on Jean Talon. Moore had a place on L'Acadie Blvd., and we used to see him driving around in his convertible with a Samoyed and a very dishy wife.
While "studying" at McGill University during the 1960s, I used to attend games at the old Montreal Forum. My fellow undergraduate reprobates and I would scramble up the stairs to get centre-ice spots in the top standing room section, where aged ushers didn't know or care what we were smoking.
I stood out in the cold for six hours to get tickets to the 1975 New Year's Eve game between the Canadiens and Central Red Army. With the exception of the birth of my daughter, the 3-3 tie was the greatest event I've ever seen in my life.
The Canada-U.S. Gold medal game comes close .... but I wasn't there.
I've been a professional journalist since 1974, when I joined the Montreal Star sports department. I've covered the 1976 Olympic Games, the 1979 Expos, pop music and MSO tours of Europe and Asia (classical musicians are WAY more fun to drink with than athletes). I wrote a TV & Radio column for 20 years and, since 2000, have written a City column for The Gazette.
The best part of being a Habs Inside/Out contributor is attending games at the Bell Centre. I think it's a great building: noisy, raucous and packed to the rafters with Montrealers and visitors who live for hockey.
And I still get goosebumps every time Michel Lacroix booms out "Accueillons nos Canadiens ..."
Having seen the Boston Red Sox win two World Series and the Pittsburgh Steelers add a couple Super Bowl titles, I suppose I can die happy ... but not before another Stanley Cup parade. And I'd really like my daughter to see a historic New Year's Eve game.
I like all the players. Covering baseball gives me a profound appreciation of pro athletes who aren't jerks.
My weltanschauung was summarized by the late great Bill Hicks when he said "all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
Have a nice day.
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