Maple Leafs Working To Bring In Brothers Before Trade Deadline

By going 8-0-2 in their last 10 games, the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally moved back into a playoff spot. This is a playoff team which had a rough start and needed some health. While the health hasn't exactly come back, a lot of players are contributing to the success.

As it has been since the summer, the Maple Leafs need additions, even more so now that there is some open cap space and certain players that have shown they are disposable. Toronto hasn't been silent though. There have been attempts all season to change the complexion of the team.

Elliotte Friedman said, "I heard...Brayden Schenn wasn't going to waive to Toronto unless the Leafs also got Luke (Schenn). When all that was going on about teams uniting the Schenn brothers, that's what I think Toronto was trying to do."

Schenn has a 15-team no-trade list, but clearly the Maple Leafs are on that list. If there was more interest from teams not on the list, we might have heard Brayden Schenn being traded already. He has two more years left on his deal after this season at $$6.5 million AAV and is having a down season offensively. This is most likely due to the poor overall team play of the St. Louis Blues that GM Doug Armstrong even addressed this season.

Schenn is 34 years old and is a great type of player for the playoffs, a hump the Maple Leafs have to get over. He would be able to fit in perfectly as the third line center and even move up if there is an injury to Auston Matthews. Schenn has nine goals and 18 points in 46 games this season, but is averaging 20 goals and 54 points over the last four seasons. The Maple Leafs would probably be able to have the Blues retain some cap.

As for Luke Schenn on the Winnipeg Jets, it doesn't look like they will be competing this season, and trades are in order. He is in the final year of his deal at $2.75 million AAV and Brandon Tanev is probably done for the regular season, opening up a spot on the right side and a need to bring a d-man in. He has no trade protection and would be an easy get for Toronto.