Leafs great Dave Keon was clearly slowing down when the Kings made their pitch, but he remained a respected leader, great skater and penalty killer, and a big hockey name to offer the L.A. audience. Which brings us to how the greatest player in Leafs history — Dave Keon — almost became a member of the Kings. The Keon deal wasn’t going to happen. “(Cooke) said, ‘I promise I won’t trade those players for Dionne,’” Pulford recalls. Keon as a King would have been a decidedly more interesting chapter in hockey history than Keon in the doomed WHA.

Source: thestar October 15, 2018 21:56 UTC