Elliotte Friedman was on Calgary’s Sportsnet 960 on Monday morning.

On where the Rangers are on Rick Nash:

“I will check in on that again this week. I think that Nash kind of looked at that as maybe a shot across the bow. He’s going from a complete no-move clause to some kind of modified no-trade clause on July 1.

“To me, the most interesting thing about that is yes he’s carrying a big number, but he scored 42 goals in the regular season. If you ask any coach right now what’s the hardest thing about the NHL, it’s getting into the playoffs. Never mind winning the Stanley Cup – it’s getting in. Boy, the New York Rangers without those 42 goals? I’d be very curious to see what the deal’s going to be there.

“The team I think to watch in something like this is a team like Buffalo. They already went out and they got Evander Kane. I could see them being interested in a player like Nash too. Tim’s a bit aggressive that way. But again, I’m not 100 percent convinced that one’s going to happen.

“I think his name is out there because they want to teams to call them and say, ‘Okay, if we want to do Nash, what’s it going to take?’

“But he has some control over the situation.”

Source: Sportsnet 960/ Transcript: Nichols