Pavel Buchnevich
"Pavel Buchnevich The Fake"
I don't think I said further CHL expansion would hurt American player development. I do think that expanding in a way where you try to just gobble up two teams from a successful league already in place is not necessarily beneficial. At best, you have a similar product on the end of however that plays out. Could end up a worse product (look at golf with the LIV/PGA Tour squabbles and how the overall product of the sport has declined out of two products beefing).Proper player development does not rest solely with USA Hockey and you have given zero reasons as to why further CHL expansion would hurt that player development.
If it's done in a proper way, I think CHL expansion into the USA could be beneficial. I don't think the proper way is how they've gone about it here. You can claim that the teams approached them, but regardless if that's true or not, I think the CHL should have had some foresight that trying to go through with taking two teams from another league is too ugly of a process and probably ends up creating a lose/lose or lose/net neutral situation as opposed to any type of win/win.