LeBrun: Teams let Leafs know they'll trade for Kessel

Pierre LeBrun was on Toronto’s TSN 1050 on Friday afternoon.

As part of a much larger discussion on the Leafs:

“I can tell you that I’ve spoken to some teams – I’m not going to tell you who at this point because I was asked not to – but they said they have contacted Toronto to say, ‘If you guys are ever getting serious about Kessel, let us know and we’ll get in on it.’ So that has happened.”

Really.

“Well, yeah. Why not? With all that’s happening with Carlyle’s firing and Kessel’s in the spotlight, other teams aren’t idiots. But it goes to show you, for all the people who called in to say there’s no way there’d be a market – there would be a market. Okay? It would not be an issue.

“And again, we don’t know if they’re going to move him. They may not. But I’m telling you, there are other teams that would be interested. There’s no question about it.”

Do you think that’s the only player in which that would be the case?

“No. No. I think there’s interest in Phaneuf. And I know there’s people listening going, ‘Come on!’ I’m telling you, there is.

“The question is, if what you’re getting in return is spare parts and, ‘We’re taking that deal off your hands. We’re trying to help you out.’ That’s when you’re concerned. What’s the point in that?”

Source: TSN 1050/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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