Prospect Info: Aiden Fink - RW | 218th Overall | 2023 NHL Draft

[Porter Stoutheart]

All college players of any sport are, I'm just not sure how much you are really going to get unless your sport is either producing lots of money or you just happen to have a booster that decides he wants to try and get certain guys in.

Yeah, NCAA hockey is several orders of magnitude below football or basketball. This isn't going to be A Thing for hockey prospects (yet, if ever).

 

[Armourboy]

Yeah, NCAA hockey is several orders of magnitude below football or basketball. This isn't going to be A Thing for hockey prospects (yet, if ever).

I figure eventually you will see a shift in how everything works. I gotta wonder how long before college really is just a minor league system where teams have the players under contract and then choose where to put them for development, especially in a case like the NFL that doesn't have a minors system atm.

 

[wmupreds]

Yeah, NCAA hockey is several orders of magnitude below football or basketball. This isn't going to be A Thing for hockey prospects (yet, if ever).

I would be shocked if the big time hockey programs aren't already dabbling in the NIL world to a fairly significant degree. Not anywhere near what football players are paid, I'm sure. But even WMU is running ads on their broadcasts for NIL donations.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I would be shocked if the big time hockey programs aren't already dabbling in the NIL world to a fairly significant degree. Not anywhere near what football players are paid, I'm sure. But even WMU is running ads on their broadcasts for NIL donations.

Well, there are very few players heading to NCAA hockey programs who are "known names" atm. Maybe that will change. Probably the handful of "known names" do get NIL notoriety. But it's probably not happening for the Aiden Finks of the world anyway. Or for any other player ever on a Penn St. ice hockey roster. But sure, get a Celebrini or Hagens on a big time hockey program... that's a different story. And then... maybe the Finks of the world start dreaming about being on those big time program teams...

 

[Predsanddead24]

One other consideration for any Canadian players is that they are in a student visa so can't receive money from US companies or NIL collectives. This was an issue for Zach Edey who is Canadian in college basketball last season.

 

[glenngineer]

So who's got the better shot at making it in the NHL, let alone becoming a top 6 player for us?

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

So who's got the better shot at making it in the NHL, let alone becoming a top 6 player for us?

Stiga.