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

On his cliff hanger involving the Montreal Canadiens from his weekend ‘Headlines’ segment, where he intimated the Canadiens were about to make a big move:

“Well, the reason I kind of did that is I’m not sure what they are going to do, but everybody is saying just watch out for them. They’re trying. They know their window is two years. Because then they’ve got to extend Price and they’ve got to extend Pacioretty the year after that. So I think they’re all in.

“The name you hear a lot is Eller, but one GM said to me – he laughed and said, ‘You hear that name every three months.’

“But I do think that Marc Bergevin is smart enough to look at his roster and say, ‘We’ve got a couple of years to do this before we have to start doing some big-time contract extensions.’

“So I think they’re going to go for it when they see they’re as close as they are now.”

On if they’re looking to add a defenseman or a forward:

“I think they’re looking at both.”

Source: Sportsnet 960/ Transcript: Nichols