Breaking: Veteran NHL player has blocked a trade to the Maple Leafs.

Veteran player doesn't want to be a Leaf.

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Breaking: Veteran NHL player has blocked a trade to the Maple Leafs.

The Maple Leafs were rumored to be in on the Bryan Boyle deal and now we appear to have confirmation that they were very close indeed.

Hockey insider Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports has revealed that the Maple Leafs had a deal in place that would have sent the Tampa Bay Lightning forward to Toronto but the trade was blocked by another Lightning player, veteran Valtteri Filppula.

Filppula has played for head coach Mike Babcock before during his time with the Detroit Red Wings which would lead you to believe that he would be familair/comfortable with that system, however it seems Filppula wasn't interested.

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