A few local kids who did only one year in the BCHL are still confirmed heading to Ivy league to play hockey next year. So at least some of the Ivys are not going into free for all mode yet.
I wonder if CHL changes their development scholarship agreement with kids that sign with them going forward . Like when sign with NTDP they spend a ton of money on you and if you leave early my understanding you have to write them a check for a part of the cost for people who say that’s not happening lol
Ya, do something to make your league even less appealing.
The positive had like 6 Canada hockey buddies call me and are so pissed CHL is just going to be a feeder to the NCAA and USA wins again lol .
You wonder if this situation will trickle down to the European junior leagues. Would the CHL ever consider opening up more roster spots to Euros to compensate for all the talent leaving for the NCAA?
We're already seeing more and more Euros going NCAA too.
Interesting thought.
We're already seeing more and more Euros going NCAA too.
Interesting thought.
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Ya . Probably would be helpful to attach overager to the CHL players, or aged out,
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A lot of CHL guys use their college funds for Canadian post secondary and play on those teams. It’s fantastic they can go to US schools and play now too.
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Can't people just read the birth year and figure that out themselves?
Reading comprehension seems to be quite a struggle on here
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Hey I wrote that article
Bjorn Le
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I love when the NCAA-stans who masquerade in this thread as unbiased, objective commenters come back with these childish retorts whenever challenged.
Oh well, another joker to the ignore list.
Scott Darling was a non-prospect who clawed up through the SPHL and ECHL to make the NHL for a cup of coffee. His decision making priorities for his hockey development are not the same as a star prospect. No one is disputing that U.S. college athletes are campus celebrities (although some here seem to think that CHL/AHL players have no social life by comparison).
What is disputed and what is absolutely not true in the eyes of anyone besides the armchair GMs posting here, who have a very creepy view of what is important to teenage future NHL players, is that is anyway a consideration for a top prospect. Not a single top prospect is picking the NCAA because they want to live a college social life. Celebrini did not accelerate his schooling to be a big man at BU. It’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
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Many of the people in this thread do not seem to understand the appeal to the US college experience. And they couldn't be disproven a few months ago.
But now that CHL prospects are committing en masse to the NCAA, it should be obvious how attractive the experience is for reasons beyond just hockey. If the only considerations were development or money, we wouldn't be so immediately seeing this quantity and quality of commitments. Because there are other leagues that can make a claim to be comparable from a developmental or financial standpoint. What none of those other leagues can compete with is the social, educational, and reputational curb appeal that the NCAA has.
College coaches have been saying for some time now that college hockey sells itself to recruits, and we're pretty clearly seeing that now.
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Canadian hockey parents seeing their 100k+ investment in 10+ years of AAA hockey finally pay off
160 full rides and counting
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160 full rides and counting
CHL to NCAA Tracker: OHL, WHL, QMJHL players going to U.S. college ranks
Here's a look at players from the WHL, OHL and QMJHL who have made NCAA commitments since the start of 2024.
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How do you possibly miss so much? Its almost impressive how bad all your posts are
Just because you're unfamiliar with a phenomenon and/or are out of touch with the types of real human beings involved in these decisions does not mean it's creepy or a projection for other people to have more of a clue.
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Nope. Tell me you haven’t spent anytime around a high level professional athlete focused on making the Show without telling me you haven’t. There is zero evidence for any claim that high-level hockey prospects choose the NCAA “for the college lifestyle.” Joe Blow non-prospect whose choice is U-Sports, the ECHL, or playing Tier 2 in Central Europe, sure. But even then development is still the primary motivator.
It is such a waste of time that this is even being brought up. No one is talking about this in the actual hockey world. So let’s stop the creepy projection and leave this garbage.
