Rob Ramage, the Montreal Canadiens director of player development, was at a press conference this morning to talk about the organization's youth. He talked about Jesse Ylonen and Mattias Norlinder, two promising players.
Andrew Zadarnowski, a writer for the Eyes on the prize site, mostly assigned to cover the CH, drew an interesting parallel with Rob Ramage's remarks. Ramage mentioned that players coming from college have the opportunity to choose their destiny, because the "Collective Bargaining agreement," the NHL Players' Association's collective bargaining agreement, is made that way. So NCAA players have the opportunity to choose whether they want to settle with the team that drafted them or test the free agent market.
With this point made by Ramage, Zadarnowski mentioned that he was less and less sure that Jordan Harris will sign with the Habs. Speaking of a potential Harris signing, Ramage was not reassuring about it:
