Jeremy Bracco and his Toronto Marlies teammates were sitting in the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport last Saturday night when Bracco’s phone started to receive an abnormal number of notifications.



Bracco was not watching the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast at the time. Had he been, he would have heard his name being mentioned by Elliotte Friedman, though perhaps not in the manner he would have hoped: Bracco, according to Friedman, is on the trading block.



“Nobody from my end knows anything about it,” said Bracco of the report. “I love it here. I hope to stay here and I hope to play here for a long time, but you never know what will happen.”



Now in the third and final year of his entry-level contract, Bracco’s development has not progressed in the same manner as many of his peers. And the speculation over his availability in a trade will only intensify discussion about his future with the Leafs.



Bracco began...