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Sundin's Leafs legacy becomes permanent

Don't tell me about heart and dedication and resilience. This is unbelievable."

- Joe Bowen's call of Mats Sundin's game-tying goal against the Carolina Hurricanes on May 28, 2002

Heart. Dedication. Resilience.

If you were to fill a room with people flipping through dictionaries in search of ideal words to describe a Toronto Maple Leaf, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with three better than heart, dedication and resilience. For a franchise steeped in a history of hard-nosed, hard-working, high-skilled teams, those three superlatives come to mind more often than not.