There are plenty of teams drooling over Sundin

This is a request that the sports news sites stop with the Sundin rumours for a little while, they are getting a bit much. For almost 6 months we have had weekly speculation of what Matts might do this year, and when September came, it seemed to get worse. Now Sundin can barely go to an ice rink without the papers getting into a frenzy. Is this what news passes for?

Sundin Might be going to the Habs

Then again he might be wearing an Ottawa jersey next week

Then again it seems he is going to Tampa

But didnt the Toronto Star say he was going to Los Angeles

And as the fourth period reported “The Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks”

Enough, lets just get the news when it actually exists. Canèt a guy retire in peace? Besides, sportnet.ca has it on good authority that he is going to Colorado!

What do you think?

Wendell Clark

Number 17 needs to introduction in Toronto.  Clark was a first overall pick in 1985, and from that day he began building his stellar career for the maple leafs.  Fans instantly fell in love with this defensemans hard hitting, and high scoring style.

“He was the ultimate competitor, he was a 185-pounder who played like a 210-pounder, and he played more games than any other player in terms of being held together by the training staff,” said Leafs GM Cliff Fletcher

Doug Gilmour will have his number 93 raised in January.

Clark played larger than his five-foot-11 and 180-pound body would suggest. He stood toe-to-toe with the league’s toughest heavyweights. Who can forget the Clark/McSorley fight when McSorley knocked Gilmour almost senseless with a flying hit . Clark dropped the gloves immediately and showed McSorley who was boss.  Here is a clip  of that fight and many others.

“You remember the fights and you remember the goals, but it was his character that really stood out,” former Leaf Mark Osborne said. “I remember going into Joe Louis Arena at a time when he was having back problems, but he was still willing to engage Bob Probert even though he wasn’t feeling great.”

The Leafs do not have any players with the work ethic, grit, or determination that Clark had.  But after trading Clark away, raising his number might remind the current team what a proud Maple Leaf looks like.