Mats Sundin to Sign with Canucks -- Unless He Doesn't

This whole Mats Sundin free agency charade is turning into one big game of Mats stringing along different teams until he finds just the one he wants. It's sort of like he's the only girl at the bar on Saturday night. He gets to choose whoever he damn well pleases -- if he chooses anyone at all.

So now Mats and his agent(s) have gone all Peter Forsberg on us. Yeah, I said it. You know how that kind of thing goes. Mats is playing. Unless he's not. Or maybe he's going back to Europe. Hell, for all we know at this point he might join the Peace Corps and head to [remote African nation or pacific island].

Earlier in the weekend a report from Sweden leaked that Mats was going to become a Canuck. Usually reports like these from a random newspaper in the player's home country can be pretty telling. This, apparently, is not one of those cases. Also apparent is that "Klar for Vancouver" means something to the effect of "Hey look! Breaking News! Mats Sundin to Vancouver!" in Swedish. I'm not really sure about the exact translation. But either way, it was not to be. At least not yet. Earlier today, Sundin's Swedish representative denied the rumors.

(Sidenote: Swedish representative... Wha? How rich do you have to be to have an agent AND a 'Swedish representative??')

Getting back to the point -- this is starting to become ridiculous. The Sundin Charade hasn't yet reached the epic level of Brett Favre's Will He or Won't He Routine but it's getting there. It's already a Code Forsberg and that's only a hop skip and a jump away from Brett. Mats, buddy. Do us all a big favor and figure this all out already because frankly, no one outside of Canada really cares where a 37-year old center who is good but is not going to change the direction of a franchise in a heartbeat is going to play next year.

UPDATE (12:27 AM): Alanah McGinley from Canucks and Beyond has an absolutely epic breakdown of how all this may have gone down. It's a great read. An excerpt, emphasis is hers:

Umicevic's contact in Russia told him that an unspecified KHL club was very interested in signing Sundin (which is certainly believable) and that Sundin's agent turned them down (also believable, sure) because he had already signed with Vancouver. (Ummm... say what?!?).