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I thought we were at like 140+… I haven’t been tracking it but that seems to be roughly the number others have come up with
Total 2004 OA's players available ( 4 teams had 2)=176

U Sports Commititments =16
NCAA Commitements= 99
Unavailable- (Pro, Euro , US born ) = 30
Still available=31
 
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I thought we were at like 130+… I haven’t been tracking it but that seems to be roughly the number others have come up with
Roughly 29 QMJHL, 49 OHL and 65 WHL are confirmed to NCAA, total of 143.
I think some of the guys are Jr A transfers to Major Junior, but most are full time CHL.
 
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Total 2004 OA's players available ( 4 teams had 2)=176

U Sports Commititments =16
NCAA Commitements= 99
Unavailable- (Pro, Euro , US born ) = 30
Still available=31
Thanks ! My bad , I had assumed the number on the prior page was overage guys!!

Thanks to all of you for keeping track of this because I would be banging my head against the wall trying lol.
 
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Time for the CHL and Hockey Canada to get back to the drawing board here.... losing overages to the NCAA is one thing but losing first round NHL talent is a PROBLEM.
 
Rumour that Blainville-Boisbriand forward (and projected 1st rounder) Justin Carbonneau is heading to BC.

So it seems the big schools are focusing on bringing in the high-end, pre-overage/draft eligible guys. After a few years, when the new landscape starts to stabilize, I wonder if we ever see a situation where there is a bit of a shift back where more overagers start going to U Sports again. I can see more and more NCAA teams follow the lead of the BC's and UND's and try to recruit guys and get them into their program before they become overagers.
 
Imagine if McKenna goes too…

It was all fun and games when all of these BCHL kids started flooding CHL rosters but now we are definitely seeing the negative side of things for the CHL
Winning is fun until you start losing.

I'm not sure if I ever said this, but there are a lot of unknowns that no one knows are unknown.

Perhaps the CHL may rewrite contracts stipulating that a player can't leave until they tell him to. :)
 
Got this from the NCAA page. It's a bit dated....

268 CHL players and alumni have committed to NCAA Division One Men's Ice Hockey programs since September 2024.

By Birth Year Tracker:
2002: 4
2003: 6
2004: 90
2005: 64
2006: 35
2007: 44
2008: 23

By Program Tracker:
13: Maine
12: Omaha
11: Clarkson
10: Arizona State, Bowling Green, Penn State
9: Quinnipiac, Providence
8: Mass-Lowell, Michigan Tech, Vermont
7: Bemidji State, Miami, New Hampshire
6: Lake Superior State
5: Alaska-Anchorage, Alaska-Fairbanks, Colgate, Denver, Holy Cross, Mass-Amherst, Merrimack, Ohio State
4: Boston University, Colorado College, Cornell, Lindenwood, Michigan, Michigan State, Niagara, Northeastern, Notre Dame, RIT, RPI, Sacred Heart, Yale
3: Connecticut, Harvard, Princeton, Robert Morris, St. Lawrence, Union
2: Mercyhurst, Minnesota State, North Dakota, Northern Michigan, St. Thomas, Western Michigan, Wisconsin
1: Army, Bentley, Boston College, Brown, Long Island, Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, Tennessee State
0: Air Force, Augustana, Canisius, Dartmouth, Ferris State, St. Cloud State, Stonehill
 
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One has to wonder if there becomes an oversaturation where ice team and even roster space becomes a problem for all those that are committing to schools?
 
One has to wonder if there becomes an oversaturation where ice team and even roster space becomes a problem for all those that are committing to schools?
Good point. I said somewhere else that some of these commits won't play every game. They may stay one season and head to CIS hockey. I'll try to follow some of the AUS guys who left their teams and some of the bigger CHL names.
 

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