A small article in today's Ottawa Sun reports that Mats Sundin is "perturbed" that details of his gimpy hip were "forwarded" or "leaked" to a Toronto reporter. His agent speculates that it must be some kind of conspiracy as he's quoted as saying that "Mats wants to know if someone has a problem with him and wants to disrupt contract negotiations..."
Come on!
This game players and teams are playing in recent years - where injuries are disclosed as being "upper or lower body injuries" or the new "general body soreness" coined by Ted Nolan - is going a little too far.
While I can understand, to a point, why a team participating in the Stanley Cup playoffs might not want to present a target for opposition players to focus on any given player, I fail to see what the harm is in disclosing an injury to a player who is no longer skating.
Sure, Sundin's agent must fear that his cut of the Leaf captain's soon to be negotiated salary might end up shrinking a little, what happened to transparency and honesty? Teams aren't allowed to finalize trades until it is known that one player isn't damaged goods. As it stands, it's being presumed that Sundin will be ready to attend training camp. Had this story not "leaked out", would this injury that could prevent him from attending the opening of trading camp not be disclosed to potential suitors who might fork out over six million a year for him?
Go ahead and pout, Mats. Cry me a river, J.P. Barry - the story's out and you won't be able to con an extra million or two out of an unsuspecting team. Don't blame Steve Simmons at the Toronto Sun - by reporting the news he was doing his job. Now go do yours.
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