The Toronto Maple Leafs might have a very busy trade deadline ahead of them and they could be getting right into the action with one of their biggest deals of the century. According to ESPN's Kevin Weekes, the Maple Leafs have expressed interested in acquiring for New York Rangers star winger Artemi Panarin. Leafs named among teams interested in trading for Artemi PanarinPer sources, as of today, I’m told the following have expressed interest in Panarin ; ANA, LA, SJ, VGK, DAL, UT, COL, MIN, SEA, TOR, CAR, WAS, TBL, NYI. Are the Leafs really a contender to get Panarin? What obviously makes a deal like this complicated and probably unlikely to go down for the Leafs is just how bad they have been.