German Prospects for the NHL Draft

[Bombay66]

it is a bit off-content, but what speaks against the same youth system which is used by the US Youth Hockey Program and also used now by the Slovak federation with an impressive impact on the draft picks, i am talking about a national U17 and U18 team which is participating every week for example at the DNL or maybe even an Oberliga-Team...there should be some monetary compensation of course for the youth clubs maybe even a premium to set some goal for these clubs to get their players in the national elite teams U17 and U18

Of couse the national training locations in Füssen had to be modernsied and combined with a youth academy for school but this is the way to go in my perspective, if you look at the u17 div leagues and even the dnl the level of opponents is too shaky to get some proper competition for the elite players and the direct way to an DEL or DEL2 team is too difficult because of so many foreign players at these leagues

maybe a u16 Team for the DNL and an U18 Team for the Oberliga with 2-3 overaged players, the oberliga has some proper professional competition level, and this league is heavily looking for new teams to join, I would rather watch a DEB U18 Elite Team than some Dutch teams to be honest

those players should of course stay for example an official Mannheim youth player and be optional to get a call up for the DEL Team every week

 

[pgfan66]

it is a bit off-content, but what speaks against the same youth system which is used by the US Youth Hockey Program and also used now by the Slovak federation with an impressive impact on the draft picks, i am talking about a national U17 and U18 team which is participating every week for example at the DNL or maybe even an Oberliga-Team...there should be some monetary compensation of course for the youth clubs maybe even a premium to set some goal for these clubs to get their players in the national elite teams U17 and U18

Of couse the national training locations in Füssen had to be modernsied and combined with a youth academy for school but this is the way to go in my perspective, if you look at the u17 div leagues and even the dnl the level of opponents is too shaky to get some proper competition for the elite players and the direct way to an DEL or DEL2 team is too difficult because of so many foreign players at these leagues

maybe a u16 Team for the DNL and an U18 Team for the Oberliga with 2-3 overaged players, the oberliga has some proper professional competition level, and this league is heavily looking for new teams to join, I would rather watch a DEB U18 Elite Team than some Dutch teams to be honest

those players should of course stay for example an official Mannheim youth player and be optional to get a call up for the DEL Team every week

Been saying this for a long time. The US model won't work because the U17 wouldn't be good enough but the Slovak model should work. Keep players' rights with their club teams and allow players to move between their club and the national development program. Have the U18 (or even U19) development program play an exhibition schedule vs. DNL, Oberliga, some junior teams in other countries and if it's going well maybe one day DEL2. Perhaps leave Füssen and go use Red Bull's facilities in Munich instead or build a German version of the RB academy in Salzburg. It was touched on in the Bissl Hockey podcast's WJC preview episode too (in case you are or understand German).