NCAA / CHL Lawsuit

[AUS Fan]

More overage CHL players who have opted for the NCAA:

Daniel Hauser, G (Wenatchee) - University of Wisconsin
Sam Oliver, F (Drummondville) - University of New Hampshire
Noah Morneau, F (Windsor) - Bowling Green State
Carlin Dezainde, F (Swift Current) - University of Connecticut
Cedrick Guindon, F (Kingston) - University of Vermont

5 more who could have gone to CIS teams

 

[FreddyFoyle]

5 more who could have gone to CIS teams

USports might just see them a year later, if they don't manage to play well enough to keep their Div I scholarship. Coaches can be cynical with their scholies.

 

[AUS Fan]

USports might just see them a year later, if they don't manage to play well enough to keep their Div I scholarship. Coaches can be cynical with their scholies.

Possible for sure. Will they even have a full ride or will they eat a year of CHL money? Once again, a lot of moving parts.

Edit: Just noticed that NCAA scholarships will increase from 18 to 26 in 2025-26.

Also

Full-ride scholarship offer: Men’s full-ride ice hockey scholarships are reserved for recruits that competed in the USHL junior hockey league. Though, this does not mean that recruits who didn’t play for a tier 1 junior hockey league won’t receive a full ride. Division 1 hockey programs also recruit athletes from tier 2 junior hockey leagues.

 

[bungdropper]

If these guys are committing now, they're getting full rides.

 

[JMCx4]

Edit: Just noticed that NCAA scholarships will increase from 18 to 26 in 2025-26.

You need to keep up.

 

[dm8895]

5 more who could have gone to CIS teams

Is worth noting , it’s early and they could end up cleaning house on overages for all I know but these guys have all been the cream of the crop guys (UNB/Alberta , AHL/Europe) who we’d be discussing as potential CIS players if they don’t get good pro offers.
I stand by what I’ve said , I think the people who think CIS is going to become a Jr.B retirement league are insane and the people who think that it will have zero impact aren’t much brighter . I could be wrong but I think we are going to see the top 5% of players skimmed off the top going forward.

 

[AUS Fan]

Is worth noting , it’s early and they could end up cleaning house on overages for all I know but these guys have all been the cream of the crop guys (UNB/Alberta , AHL/Europe) who we’d be discussing as potential CIS players if they don’t get good pro offers.
I stand by what I’ve said , I think the people who think CIS is going to become a Jr.B retirement league are insane and the people who think that it will have zero impact aren’t much brighter . I could be wrong but I think we are going to see the top 5% of players skimmed off the top going forward.

I said something like that a week or 2 ago, without the insane bit. The top guys who would have gone to UNB or UofA, will now try NCAA and the next tier will be the top guys.

I think the overall result may be a slightly less competitive game, because of the top players leaving, but certainly not Beer League hockey.

 

[dm8895]

I was looking at the 2003-2004 UNB roster tonight because it keeps coming to mind for me that this is what I think a good USports team will look like in 10 years, 7 players played at least their over age year in tier 2 , 3 older guys who had pro experience .
Despite what a certain twitter account would tell you that CIS hockey is going to die , everyone in Fredericton says that the best hockey game ever played in this city involved this team…
The hockey can still be great even if we don’t have 100 point CHL stars playing .. I think of some of my favourite players to come through UNB - Craig Perry , Lachlan MacIntosh , Dion Campbell etc and I don’t even know in 2024 if any of those guys would get a shot in the top half of the AUS but they all developed into good players who by year 4 were good enough to play on the modern team.

Conversation has moved beyond this but was digging around last night… reference point for what I was talking about