Little Miss Sundin has arrived.

Three-and-a-half kilos of bouncing baby girl.

She’s got her mother’s eyes and her father’s serene disposition. But so far, no first name to put on the back of her newborn onesie.

“She doesn’t have a name yet,” an over-the-moon Mats Sundin told the Star from Stockholm Thursday morning. “We have a few a few possibilities, still trying to decide.”

Typical wavering Mats — the Hamlet of Hockey — and now a first-time dad with christening angst.

Baby X came into the world on Monday, Sundin in the delivery room to cradle the pass at the end of wife Josephine’s labour. Mom and baby sailed through the experience just fine. Dad is still a bit shaky.

“It was like watching a miracle,’’ the former and long-time Maple Leaf captain reports. “Thankfully, she looks like her mother, with dark eyes. And she has hair!”

At age 41, paternity has been a long time coming for the big Swede.

“It’s a new concept for me. Playing hockey for all those years, family was something I’d always kept on the back burner, waiting for the right time. I think I just wanted to be mature enough for fatherhood.”

The couple married three years ago.

“My career was over. We moved back to Sweden and built a new house. So finally the time was right.

“I’ve waited so long for this and it feels great. This is a wonderful way for us to begin the next part of our life together as a little family.

“I’m such a lucky man, to have found the perfect woman, my beautiful wife Josephine, and now to have this gorgeous baby girl. Life couldn’t be better. I’m so very happy.”

This has been an eventful year for Sundin. In February, his No. 13 jersey was raised to the rafters at the Air Canada Centre in an emotional ceremony. Unfortunately, that memorable evening also kicked off a ruinous slide through the standings for his old team, which finished out of the playoffs for a seventh continuous season.

“Not my fault!” Sundin protests, accepting no blame for the timing of Toronto’s disastrous slump, and he’s known a few first-hand.

Then, in June, an “honoured and humbled’’ Sundin was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

The always classy and infinitely courteous Sundin will be in Toronto for the official Hall of Fame rites in November. He hopes to bring Josephine and Baby Sundin with him for the occasion. Hopefully the infant will have a name by then.

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Sundin is looking forward, as well, to expanding the Sundin dynasty over the next few years.

“Of course. Josephine wants to have more of these little things and so do I.

“I’m loving being a father.”

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