Garth McLennan sports@theotherpress.ca Garth McLennan sports editor What is Sundin waiting for? Wii this may seem like the most overdone story in sports history, Mats Sundin still hasn’t signed with an NHL team. Vancouver Canucks General Manager, Mike Gillis, has made it clear though, that even as the 2008-09 season approaches the quarter mark, his two-year, $20- million offer is still on the table. Gillis initially extended the deal to Sundin, 37, on July 1", the opening day of this year’s free agent market. Now, ten million dollars per year is a lot of money, obviously. Still, when you stop and think about it, just how much is it? Well, each NHL team plays 82 games per year, so that amounts to $121,951.21 per game. Not too shabby, but that doesn’t seem to be good enough for the long-time Toronto Maple Leafs captain. If he were to sign here, the 65,231 pound power center would earn $192,307.69 every week. Still not impressed? Well, let’s put it another way. If Sundin, (who is the only Swedish player in NHL history to score 1000 points and the first Swedish player to ever score 500 goals and is also the Maple Leafs’ all-time leading goals and points scorer) were to grow a brain and accept Vancouver’s offer, then he would pocket a measly $833 333.33 every month. Not bad take home pay. It only gets better for Sundin and more infuriating for the seven billion other people on the planet. As the offer stands, Sundin, who led Sweden to gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics with eight points in eight games and also captained the team, would accumulate $27,397.26 per day. That works out to $1141.55 per hour every hour. That kind of beats slogging it out at Safeway, right? Had he taken Gillis’ ridiculously over-the-top deal, Mats Sundin—who hasn’t scored fewer than 70 points in a season since the lockout shortened 1994-95 campaign, where he put up 47 points in 47 games— would have banked $19 per every single minute for the next two years. That means that every second, the first European ever drafted first overall, as he was in 1989, would be able to count on 31 cents for the next two full years. Every second. When put in those terms, how can he not sign that deal? If I was bringing in 31 cents per second, I don’t know if I would be able to sleep. I would probably just sit in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking to myself, cha-ching! Cha-ching! Cha- ching! Just think for a moment of how set you’d be for life. Now think of how Sundin can possibly turn that down. Now, I know that as one of the NHL’s premier and most elite players for the last fifteen years or so, Sundin has earned himself “Had he taken Gillis’ ridiculously over-the-top deal, Mats Sundin would have banked $19 per every single minute for the next two years” some pretty good dough. But, come on, Mats. 3/ cents a second? Are you freaking kidding me? Get your crap together buddy.