According to The Score deadline show, and HockeyBuzz, Kyle Wellwood has demanded a trade from the Toronto Maple Leafs. I called up a few people and I can confirm this to be true.

San Jose and Ottawa are the front runners, San Jose wanting him thrown in a trade with another player for the Leafs to aquire Cheechoo (bundled with Ponikarovsky or Antropov I’m hearing), or to Ottawa for Vermette, straight up.

UPDATE: This has now been confirmed to be false…the thing isn’t its not so much false as it is Welly changing his mind…Kyle’s been under a lot of stress from what I’ve heard lately and he might have demanded the trade on a whim and changed his mind. Good to see, I’m a big Wellwood fan and think he should stay with the Leafs.