The Montreal Canadiens and Lane Hutson are going to keep things quiet for now

Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman said that the Montreal Canadiens and Lane Hutson are going to take their contract extension talks out of the public eye, as it may be affecting him.

** NHLRumors.com transcription

Ron MacLean: “Okay, headlines. Lane Hutson, the dealings going on. What is going on, if anything?

Friedman: “Well, right now, what is going on is that the Montreal Canadiens and Hudson’s representatives have said, we are taking this out of the public eye. It’s Montreal, so any little bit of news is noise, and I think there is concern about how much this has affected Hudson. He’s a young man in the NHL trying to make his way, and they don’t think, or anybody doesn’t think, that this is good for him.

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