Whether it was with his skating or by processing the game so quickly, Jordan Harris’ speed, in every sense of the word, was on full display in his NHL debut on Saturday. ✍: EricEngels
Processing speed: Realizing the puck is being turned over with all three Tampa forwards deep in Montreal’s end, Harris immediately jumps into the rush.
There were many examples of Harris processing, executing and popping up exactly where you’d want him to be in all three zones in this game. He did it with some flair, too, with an ankle-busting pivot in his own zone that sent Tampa’s Pierre-Marc Bellemare tumbling in the first period. But for a guy who said he was naturally nervous ahead of his first game in the show, Harris wasn’t wasting any of his energy. He played efficiently, moving himself and the puck with relative ease and fluidity.
On this night, the undrafted, unheralded and smooth-skating Corey Schueneman lined up next to fleet-of-foot Alex Romanov on Montreal’s top pair and scored the team’s second goal in the 5-4 shootout win. And while Justin Barron may still be in the process of finding his NHL legs just four games into his career, we know skating is his greatest strength.
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