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For those advocating for European players stay in their home nations, I get it. But it a balance between do you want to develop talent from your country or do you want to develop your country's development system? I think most mid level nations would rather they develop their nation's talent first and if they can keep them at home it being a bonus. Latvia has done a great job recently of developing what limited talent they have and that's in no small part thanks to a ton of their players coming over to NA.
 
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FourQuarters said:
Nothing is totally balanced in the world, just like Pasta is playing in the NHL instead of Euro. Players just choose what they think is the best option, whereas North American players don't choose the Euro league simply because it's not the best option for their career.
Any ban would only reduce opportunities for Czech kids, as the Czech junior League is in a weak position compared to the CHL. That's what my point is.
I know it's not fair, but it's the reality of the situation.
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If they all stay, the leauge improves tenfold. The Extraliga does too!
 
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As the CHL continues to expand, there are more Canadian players playing in the CHL than there have ever been at any point in history and if you want to keep the level of play high, players need to come from somewhere.
 
This sounds great for the CHL but does absolutely nothing for the game in the Czech Republic and other European countries.
Why build new arenas and push development of the sport when your top players may leave???

Creating a 2 tier system IMO.
 
Czechboy said:
It is a good point but I'd be fine if they banned us too. Czechs leaving early is a big problem for us. And our U20 team is usually every league in the world.lol. NCAA, USHL, whl, qhl, ohl, extraliga, liiga and AHL. It's not good. Hrabal, blumel/benak/nestrasil, stancl/jecho, melovsky, sapovaliv, Sikora, kos and Kulich. As examples. Pasta a product of Sweden. Badinka a product of Sweden.
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It's a bit of a Catch-22. It's often better for individual players to go to the best available league that will have them, but it's better for a country longterm to have a consistent and replicable player pool that is churned through domestic channels.
 
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Latvia has done a great job recently of developing what limited talent they have and that's in no small part thanks to a ton of their players coming over to NA.
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At the end of the day, even if your development is not super efficient as far as actual development, if you have a replicable system where the best players in the country are smashing into each other and letting the cream rise to the crop, it's always going to lead to a pretty steady stream of successful players. The issue with outsourcing all your best players, is it leads to a situation where the domestic league isn't a suitable option anymore and so nobody good plays in it, so it becomes a "must" to pack your bags at 16 or 17 for North America. At that point, many players will likely just "give up the dream" when they are younger (13/14) and focus their efforts elsewhere. In turn, the domestic clubs stop spending on development at all because there's no point in it for them to develop future players as it leads to dead end, youth teams start to fold and you can create a scenario 10 years down the line where there is seldom any players at all coming out of the country.

That's not to say any Latvian or Czech kid should be the martyr and play in a less than ideal scenario because of potential impacts 10 years down the line, but this is a big thing across many sports. Domestic channels give you a never ending pool of players, whereas the best players leaving young means it is naturally going to come and go and probably ultimately lead to a downward trend.
 
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At the end of the day, even if your development is not super efficient as far as actual development, if you have a replicable system where the best players in the country are smashing into each other and letting the cream rise to the crop, it's always going to lead to a pretty steady stream of successful players. The issue with outsourcing all your best players, is it leads to a situation where the domestic league isn't a suitable option anymore and so nobody good plays in it, so it becomes a "must" to pack your bags at 16 or 17 for North America. At that point, many players will likely just "give up the dream" when they are younger (13/14) and focus their efforts elsewhere. In turn, the domestic clubs stop spending on development at all because there's no point in it for them to develop future players as it leads to dead end, youth teams start to fold and you can create a scenario 10 years down the line where there is seldom any players at all coming out of the country.

That's not to say any Latvian or Czech kid should be the martyr and play in a less than ideal scenario because of potential impacts 10 years down the line, but this is a big thing across many sports. Domestic channels give you a never ending pool of players, whereas the best players leaving young means it is naturally going to come and go and probably ultimately lead to a downward trend.
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Valid points. I think Czechia is enough of a hockey nation that they could stand try to keep more kids in house. My point was more for nations like Latvia, Slovakia, Belarus. Too a smaller extent Germany or Switzerland. Kind of that next tier or two below the big hockey powers. Idk if its a investment issue for them. It probably is in their best interest to export their best talent to NA because they just will never have the resources to have those domestic systems that extract the most from their talent pool.
 
WarriorofTime said:
It's a bit of a Catch-22. It's often better for individual players to go to the best available league that will have them, but it's better for a country longterm to have a consistent and replicable player pool that is churned through domestic channels.
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I did say better 19 year olds to AHL or NHL. You get drafted round 1 and there is a spot in AHL.. gomfor it! Younger drafted round 1 and your NHL club has a spot for you. Go for it!
 
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