{"id":522085,"date":"2026-03-08T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:46:16","slug":"canadiens-quiet-trade-deadline-gets-more-confusing-with-elliotte-friedman-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522085\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens’ quiet trade deadline gets more confusing with Elliotte Friedman news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> didn’t do anything before Friday’s NHL trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Not a peep.<\/p>\n

It’s really confusing. Almost every team in the league did something. Buying, selling, even a little bit of both.<\/p>\n

Montreal took the week off from any front office action, apparently.<\/p>\n

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> spoke on Saturday night about what happened, and even he is a bit unsure.<\/p>\n

“I had a theory,” Friedman said. “I’d love to sit here and tell everybody I know what it is. I don’t think that theory is accurate. I don’t know. I don’t have the answer yet. We’re all going to keep working at it to figure it out.”<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0How Connor McDavid lost at the NHL trade deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

Friedman was pressed to provide something, but he didn’t go much further.<\/p>\n

“I think it would’ve been big,” Friedman said as part of the Saturday Headlines segment. “I can’t prove it. So I’m not going to.”<\/p>\n

Obviously, there’s not just an art to making a deal. There’s an art to knowing when not to make a deal.<\/p>\n

Maybe down the road, it’ll look brilliant that the Canadiens held firm on whatever other teams wanted from them.<\/p>\n

But for now, Montreal fans are probably just a little bummed. The trade deadline is an exciting time, if moves happen.<\/p>\n

If they don’t? It’s pretty much a bummer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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