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Exclusive: Elliotte Friedman talks to Pensburgh about his Evgeni Malkin trade comments

"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.