We now know what the problem was between Jordan Harris and Marc Bergevin

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Jeff Drouin
March 30, 2022 (4:35 PM)

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The Montreal Canadiens have settled a very big deal in the last few days by signing top prospect Jordan Harris.

A happy ending, and we are really looking forward to seeing him in action. Harris participated in his first team practice with his new teammates a few hours ago live from Raleigh.

However, according to many, we may never have been able to sign him under the previous management.

Former NHL scout Grant McCagg, like many other sources, believes that the American defenseman would never have signed with Montreal under Marc Bergevin.

He even claims that his chances of signing a contract were virtually nil, but since the new management was put in place, there has been a wind of optimism in the Harris file.

It must be said that Kent Hughes and Martin St. Louis have a pretty strong connection to the young Massachusetts native defenseman, as Hughes and St. Louis' sons played with Harris at Northeastern University.

If the Habs had not been able to sign Harris by this summer, he would have become an uncompensated free agent and the organization would have lost him for absolutely nothing.

As our colleagues at Fanadiens.com report, we now know what the problem was between Harris and Marc Bergevin.

On the "Exit the Zone" podcast, Guillaume Lefrançois revealed a very interesting piece of information related to the relationship between Harris and Bergevin:

"Well, for one, what I had been told was that there had been very little contact between senior management and Harris!" - Lefrançois

Again, it was simply a communication problem here. We realize more and more, Marc Bergevin was an excellent general manager, but in terms of communication, he had (according to many) an "old school" mentality and that seems to be his biggest weakness.

It almost hurt in the Jordan Harris file and it probably had an impact on many other problematic files under his leadership.

A third-round pick in the 2018 draft, Jordan Harris has 20 points in 39 games this season with Northeastern University and it's still unclear when he'll make his debut in a Habs uniform.