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Pierre LeBrun was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Monday afternoon.

On how trade chatter is up, but if the execution of trades will be there in the end:

“These are the two weeks of the year. It’s funny, remember we chatted leading up to the trade deadline and I kept telling you guys that late June would be more important to a lot of teams than the actual trade deadline in late February or early March every year. I think that’ll be the case over the next 14 days.

“I also think there’s a lot of unknowns. A lot of GMs that I spoke with today were wondering about certain dominoes and how they will fall. I know of a couple of teams that actually hope to really lay low and sort of pounce around July 5th or 6th or 7th when there are free agents panicking because they haven’t been signed, and the flat cap has had its impact.

“But before then, there will be trades. And certainly, I think Columbus with the No. 3 pick is the team to watch. I think that pick is in play. Doesn’t mean it’ll move, but certainly there are calls being had there.

“But also certainly player movement. There are calls right now coming in on St. Louis on Kevin Shattenkirk, who has a year left on his deal. Can the Blues sign him to an extension, or do they have to move him. They’re pretty deep on defense, especially with the advent of Parayko this year behind Pietrangelo and Bouwmeester. The Blues are in a pretty good position of strength to probably move Shattenkirk, if they want, in an offseason in which there are a lot of teams looking for D.

“Think of the Boston Bruins. Think of the Edmonton Oilers. Those among the teams that have already spoken to St. Louis here of late regarding Kevin Shattenkirk.”

Source: TSN 1040/Transcript:Nichols

LeBrun: Bruins and Oilers have called Blues on Shattenkirk