Wait, this was a thing?
To be frank, I don't pay much attention to trade rumors, because so few have any basis in fact whatsoever. I'm not really a fan of posting them here on Game Time either, because I don't want to contribute to the mill of crap that exists out there on Twitter and on blogs.
It doesn't surprise me that I hadn't caught this latest rumor, but when you have the GM of a team denying kicking the tires on a player, I suppose it's worth reporting on. Yesterday, on NJ.com, Flyers general manager denied dangling Brayden Schenn as trade bait for David Backes.