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Breeng it oon, Funcuoofer!

A fellow Macleans.ca blogger—a Habs fan who’s well aware of both my love for…

by selley on Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:41pm - 0 Comments

A fellow Macleans.ca blogger—a Habs fan who’s well aware of both my love for the Maple Leafs and my bizarre prejudice against comparing Canada to Scandinavian nations—thought I’d enjoy the following quote in The Province: “Vancouver is so much like Sweden. The culture is similar and so is the physical geography.” Grrrr. That’s Darren Hanson, manager at Ikea in Coquitlam, attempting to lure Mats Sundin to Lotusland with outrageous falsehoods. “We’ll even throw in a free bag of Swedish meatballs for every week he’s in Vancouver,” he says.

You decide, Mats. You decide:

Also, Mats—meatballs in Vancouver are made out of people.

(Photos are the work of Flickr users SqueakyMarmot and boni_zoni. Title translated into Swedish Chef at the Dialectizer.)

Tags: canucks, Ikea, Mats Sundin, sweden, vancouver

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Cameron Ainsworth-Vincze

Please come back to the Leafs, Mats. I’ll make you organic meatballs every day.
Neil

No, Mats, come to Vancouver, and leave that trash called Toronto behind. Let the Maple Leafs implode, and help bolster the Canucks’ line-up.
Jim

Um yeah, you showed the ugliest corner in BC. Nice try, Vancouver’s still much much prettier than Montreal (you guys can have the history and architecture)
Brian

Mats: as someone who has never won anything, please stay in Toronto.

After signing a gajillion dollar contract, you can again refuse to waive your no-trade clause that would have otherwise positioned the Leafs to be a reasonable team down the road. Staying in Toronto would allow you and Leaf Nation to carry-on the sucking and trump the Hartford Whalers for worst franchise in the history of hockey (maybe even sports).

Besides Mats, you’d be able to play alongside the new franchise defensemen Jeff (who?) Finger who was picked up for the bargain price of $14 million over four years after 10 years as an average defenseman in the minors.
Dije

Mats: as someone who has never won anything, either Toronto or Vancouver would work for you. Full pay and a shorter season than 16 other teams, sounds like a no brainer i’m sure… and Vancouver will pay more.

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Also, Mats—meatballs in Vancouver are made out of people.

- But of course, they don’t use the feet.
Vancouver, seriously?

Yes, Vancouverites seem to be taking Sundin’s important decision as seriously as Mike Gillis is. Well, sure can’t see Sundin taking the Vancouver option at all seriously. What a joke! LOL!!
http://www.macleans.ca Chris Selley

Yeah, but Jim, that’s also the ugliest corner in Sweden.
Ed

Sundin re-signing with Toronto is about the worst thing that could happen to the Leafs for their long-term health. He’s a great player, but he’ll be the difference between finishing dead last (and having a shot at Tavares) and finishing 7th last, at which point they’ll draft someone who goes on to average 35 pts a season.

So, needless to say, I really, really hope Sundin re-signs with the Leafs.