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NEWARK, N.J. — Jordie Benn is very happy he’s still a Montreal Canadien.

Benn learned the hard way two years ago that anything can happen on NHL trade-deadline day when he was dealt from the Dallas Stars to the Canadiens in exchange for Greg Pateryn and a fourth-round pick at the 2017 NHL Draft.

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“I called my agent a week before Dallas traded me and he said: ‘No, there’s no talk,'” Benn said after the Canadiens lost 2-1 to the New Jersey Devils Monday night at the Prudential Center. “And then a week later, I’m traded. So you never know.

“Obviously, it’s kind of in the back of your head while you’re sitting on the couch watching TV,” Benn added about how he felt Monday as the 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline approached. “I mean, it’s just one of those things. We’re in the business and if it happens it happens. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”

Benn, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, is very happy it didn’t happen.