TORONTO -- Mats Sundin could return to the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup if their second-round series against the Ottawa Senators is a long one.

It would be an amazing recovery from a broken wrist which occurred April 18.

"I hope that I'm going to be able to play later on in the series," Toronto's captain and leading scorer said Wednesday. "We'll have to see how my hand heals up.

"It feels a lot better now than it did a week ago. We're on our way but it's a slow process. You want it to improve day by day and it feels as if it is."

Sundin is getting treatments twice a day.

He broke the wrist in the opening game of the first-round series against the New York Islanders, and played the next two games before pain intensified and he was unable to hold his stick. The initial prognosis for recovery was four to six weeks.

Without Sundin, the Leafs won the Islanders series in seven games. They open the Eastern Conference semifinals against Ottawa on Thursday.