"I feel really bad about having my name attached to this," Elliotte Friedman told me on the phone last night.
He was talking about an unintended uproar that started from a radio interview he did in Calgary last Friday. What began as a normal, general talk about a lot of topics around the league ended up in something of an internet-hockey-world firestorm.
"In radio interviews sometimes you just shoot the breeze," Friedman said. "I try to be careful with what I said, but I should have been more careful, and in the future I will definitely be more careful.