What a welcome back for Mats Sundin!

The first game back in Toronto with a new team had Mats Sundin probably the most emotional he's ever been. Toronto had a nice salute to him, made him first star and fans from both sides of the country were appreciative.

From CBC:

A few minutes after the former Toronto Maple Leafs' captain scored the winning goal in a shootout for his visiting Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, he stepped back on the Air Canada Centre ice as the game's first star.

The standing ovation must have taken his breath away.

Sundin, who played in Toronto for 13 years, emotionally blew kisses to the crowd, waved and then bowed before heading off with cheers, not boos, ringing in his ears.

The Canucks did not play their best game, always seeming to come from behind but they managed to tie it up bringing it into OT. There was a a scare from the high stick into Mitchell's eye but he came back out playing (an action that Don Cherry fully praised of the "typical Canadian lad"). Sundin's play was forgettable until he scored the winner in the last of the 3 shootout attempts for Vancouver.

Aside: What a beauty of a shootout goal by Bertuzzi in the Flames/Oil game