(The Leafs acquired Sundin in a deal that sent Wendel Clark the other way. Sundin was a trailblazer of sorts, the first European-born player taken first overall in the NHL Entry Draft (1989, Quebec), and became the first European captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs. 13, 1971 in Bromma, Sweden 564 goals, 785 assists, 1,349 points in the NHLįour months after the Toronto Maple Leafs raised a banner of his likeness to the rafters at the Air Canada Centre, Sundin was in a restaurant having a quiet meal with his wife when he received the call on Tuesday: “We had a glass of Champagne.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It’s what they say - the more you practice, the more things happen.” “I’d always concentrate on shooting them as hard as I could and quickly as I could. “I just remember, all the time, before practice would start, I’d just love to sit there on the ice and shoot pucks,” he said. On Tuesday, he was asked to describe the genesis of his renowned wrist shot. Snapping, after all, was one of his specialties. Sakic, who has remained with the Avalanche as executive advisor and alternate governor, scored twice in the gold-medal game at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City to help Canada snap a 50-year Olympic drought. Taken 15th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, Sakic went on to average 1.19 points a game in 1,378 regular season games, all with the Nordiques and, then, the Colorado Avalanche. “Right after that, I just fell in love with hockey and wanted to play.” “When I was four years old, my dad took me to a Vancouver Canucks hockey game, and I remember sitting in the nosebleeds and watching them play the Atlanta Flames,” Sakic said on Tuesday.
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