The top NHL insider let it be known that the Maple Leafs really had a deal on the table to bring the St. Louis Blues center to Toronto.
The Toronto Maple Leafs almost made a bigger swing at last year's trade deadline than just trading away a whole lot of future draft picks for Scott Laughton and Brandon Carlo. A deal was on the table to land St. Louis Blues center Brayden Schenn.
A report earlier this week came our from Sportsnet's Nick Kypreos that there was a trade involving the Blues and Leafs that would see Schenn coming to Toronto, but it would also involve the Leafs' two top prospects, winger Easton Cowan and defenseman Ben Danford, going the other way to St.