I heard a month ago that Penticton was going to be granted an expansion team but that Chilliwack was denied (reasons never given or explained). Will be interested to see if both are actually granted franchises.
NCAA to allow CHL players to play hockey?
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I heard a month ago that Penticton was going to be granted an expansion team but that Chilliwack was denied (reasons never given or explained). Will be interested to see if both are actually granted franchises.
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Several sources have Penticton Vees leaving BCHL to join WHL as expansion team next season
WHL spokesperson says "no final decisions were made," at meetings but admits "many aspects around the WHL’s future plans," were discussed
theprovince.com
More fire there. Suggesting a $1million payment from Penticton to Kelowna for territorial rights
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Sounds like it’s the Vees who are moving so yeah, I imagine the BCHL team is done.
Still lots of open questions about Junior A in BC. BC Hockey has promised to make a decision about which Junior B teams they elevated to Junior A would be considered Tier 1. With the NCAA decision and assuming this move by Chilliwack and Penticton comes to pass, is there a path back to Hockey Canada sanctions for the remaining BCHL teams? Will there be BCHL teams that go back on their own, as Merritt did last year? Bottom line is lots of balls in the air that will need to come down. Interesting times.
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Takuto Maruki
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Another potential wrinkle:
Considering the NCAA-CHL agreement, and stream of overage CHL players filling out rosters for D1 hockey teams in the US, with almost 90% of those players being Canadian, alongside the amount of work D1 programs do in recruiting foreign players (not even Canadian, but now increasingly Scandinavian and Eastern European) if this gets enough steam to be tabled in federal courts, how much does that grenade all that has been done so far? It essentially forces D1 hockey, the CHL, and the NCAA back to square one.
Considering the NCAA-CHL agreement, and stream of overage CHL players filling out rosters for D1 hockey teams in the US, with almost 90% of those players being Canadian, alongside the amount of work D1 programs do in recruiting foreign players (not even Canadian, but now increasingly Scandinavian and Eastern European) if this gets enough steam to be tabled in federal courts, how much does that grenade all that has been done so far? It essentially forces D1 hockey, the CHL, and the NCAA back to square one.
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The issue is...the NHL is already subsidizing a large swath, if not all, of the teams within the CHL. Maybe a handful in each league are regularly profitable year over year, and most are in the red more often then not. How much more growth and expansion could each league have, especially considering the foibles of small city arena deals and business, and also knowing the Q is adamant behind closed doors that they will not expand into Maine/Vermont/upstate NY?
