Rumor: 6 team NAHL expansion

[HockeyVirus]

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[SirPaste]

What is the NAHL

 

[TheNumber4]

Make it stop.

 

[983 others]

lol

 

[AKL]

Is it April 1st

 

[CallMeShaft]

f*** off

 

[Coffee]

Toronto needs a second team

 

[Metroid]

 

[hamzarocks]

f***ing hell hoe many teams

A near 40 team league just makes being a fan of a fringe/rebuilding team horrible

Even a contending team will be hard pressed

 

[sansabri]

that's not the NHL bro

 

[Coffee]

Too many hell hoe teams , agreed

 

[Flames Fanatic]

People reading one letter too short in the Acronym, including the OP

 

[Mike Jones]

This is an NAHL announcement.

I know the NHL cares more about money than it does about the product on the ice but I don't think even they would add six teams at a time.

 

[SeanAveryTheGreatOne]

NAHL

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Ah yes the NAHL everyone's favorite shitter league

 

[Voight]

NAHL is the equivalent of Junior B in Canada, expansion is odd given they are going to lose guys to the USHL (roster spots will open up now that players can play in the CHL and still be eligible to play in the NCAA)

 

[Coffee]

Edit: This may not be NHL related. My apologies.

The NAHL is USA Hockey's Tier II junior hockey league with over 350 NCAA commitments every season and over 1,500 active alumni in the NCAA.

It kills us to say this, it really does ! However, it appears you have messed up.

 

[Romang67]

You all have fun discussing this in the appropriate forum.

 

[Barclay Donaldson]

NAHL is the equivalent of Junior B in Canada, expansion is odd given they are going to lose guys to the USHL (roster spots will open up now that players can play in the CHL and still be eligible to play in the NCAA)

To say it's the equivalent of Junior B in Canada is not accurate. The average NAHL team has more NCAA commits than the average team in any Canadian Junior A league except for the BCHL.

 

[Voight]

To say it's the equivalent of Junior B in Canada is not accurate. The average NAHL team has more NCAA commits than the average team in any Canadian Junior A league except for the BCHL.

It's a tier below the USHL, which is the equivalent of Junior A in Canada. Therefore it's the equivalent of Junior B in terms of tiers.

Of course it's going to have more NCAA commits given it's located in the United States., where players are more likely to play college hockey than major junior.

 

[Barclay Donaldson]

It's a tier below the USHL, which is the equivalent of Junior A in Canada. Therefore it's the equivalent of Junior B in terms of tiers.

Of course it's going to have more NCAA commits given it's located in the United States., where players are more likely to play college hockey than major junior.

The USHL at the moment is definitely not the equivalent of Canadian Junior A by any measurement...

In terms of quality, the USHL (at the moment) is pretty on par with the CHL. They would beat the wheels off any Canadian Junior A leagues.

In terms of draft picks, the USHL's 16 teams had 49 alumni drafted in the 2024 NHL Draft, which was a four year low in what scouts described as a weak showing. The CHL had a five year high with 88 players/alumni drafted between their 60 teams. Per team, that is 1.5 players drafted per team in the CHL vs over 3 for the USHL.

This is probably going to change with the recent NCAA decisions. But for the moment, any assertion that Canadian Junior A is the equivalent of the USHL is beyond absurd.

 

[I am Bettman]

It's a tier below the USHL, which is the equivalent of Junior A in Canada. Therefore it's the equivalent of Junior B in terms of tiers.

Of course it's going to have more NCAA commits given it's located in the United States., where players are more likely to play college hockey than major junior.

USHL is better than the Q and on similar level to dub and O. NAHL is much closer to BCHL than it is to Junior B. 25 current NHLers by my count on elite prospects with BCHL experience and 32 from the NAHL.

 

[paul-laus]

If the USHL played five game series against both the OHL and the WHL, they would get obliterated into another dimension….it wouldn’t even be close….perhaps they could hang with the Q which has always been a more offensive league with little mind paid to keeping puck out of one’s own end..