Mats Sundin
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"Mats Johan Sundin" is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey player. He retired from the National Hockey League (NHL) in 2009. Originally drafted List of NHL first overall draft choices/first overall in 1989 NHL Entry Draft/1989, Sundin played his first four seasons in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques. He was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1994, where he played the majority of his career, serving 11 seasons as captain (ice hockey)/team captain. At the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, Sundin had been the longest serving non-North American born captain in NHL history. Sundin last played for the Vancouver Canucks in the 2008–09 NHL season/2008–09 season before announcing his retirement on September 30, 2009. Consecutively he played 13 of his 18 NHL seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He appeared in the NHL playoffs in 10 seasons. He is the career leader in games played for Canadian teams.

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We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it.

Eddie certainly gave us a chance to win. In the second period he was awesome.

It was definitely a reality check. ... What strikes you the most is that there were a lot of young people, 18- to 25-year-olds.

I think we made some progress tonight. If we can keep playing like we did tonight we can turn this thing around.

I think if they keep going like that for a few months there won't be 10 or 11 (penalties) a side. If they're just consistent and make sure they call the penalties, it's going to sink in.

It could have been anyone of us. A lot of us have gone through tough stretches.

Who knows, it might be good for me. It's fun to get a chance to represent your country.

This is a two-week direction (the losing skid) and we still have a long season to go. I believe we have a good enough hockey team to make it to the playoffs and I believe we're going to make it.

I don't think there's an issue of guys (players) not knowing what's legal and what's not.