The Toronto Maple Leafs are showing serious interest in St. Louis Blues captain Brayden Schenn ahead of the March 7 trade deadline. TSN’s Darren Dreger doubled down on his earlier reports and those from other insiders linking the Blues veteran to the Leafs in a “mammoth” deadline deal.
On Tuesday, Dreger appeared on TSN’s “Insider Trading” segment and confirmed that Toronto’s general manager Brad Treliving is “most definitely interested” in acquiring the veteran forward with less than two weeks before the March 7 deadline. “We look at Brayden Schenn as being a great fit in Toronto because of the player and because of the winning pedigree,” Dreger said.
“You look at the prospect pool in Toronto and you see Fraser Minten or Easton Cowan. You’ve got Nikita Grebenkin. You’ve got Ben Danford coming. I mean, there are other assets that Brad Treliving can use, and he’s most definitely interested in the captain of the Blues.”
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Schenn, 33, has 12 goals and 22 assists in 59 games this season while averaging 17:34 of ice time. He won the Stanley Cup under current Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube with the Blues in 2019.
Brayden Schenn is just one game short of reaching the 1,000 games-played plateau, a barrier his brother Luke already broke at the start of the season. Speaking about Luke, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman suggested on Saturday that a few NHL teams have discussed the idea of reuniting Brayden with his brother.
“What I do think has happened is that teams have talked about uniting the Schenn brothers-Brayden from St. Louis and Luke from Nashville-maybe acquiring them in separate trades to bring them together,”
Friedman said. “We’ll see if anyone can do it.” Schenn, whose contract has a full no-trade clause, told Lou Korac of The Hockey News on Feb. 19 that he doesn’t plan to waive it to facilitate a trade.
“I love St. Louis, I love being here,” Schenn said. “I obviously know there’s a business side of it. At the end of the day, there’s no sense in me talking about speculation or what could happen because at the end of the day, I’m a St. Louis Blue and I love it here.”
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