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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
if he goes to rookie camp of course, as an NCAA eligible player he would have to pay his own way
it's not that unusual for guys to be drafted out of US prep schools into the NHL either, and from reading different articles it sounds like his prep school plays some of their games against US prep schools.
Jankowski also played in a college prospect tournament in Boston and turned some heads there.
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The US doesn't have a CHL type of infrastructure tho...
it's very rare for a canadian high schooler to get drafted by the NHL, because, typically, those elite talents get vacuumed up by the CHL teams. In fact the highest canadian high schooler picked by the NHL was a 7th rounder in 2005.
http://flames.nhl.com/club/news.htm?...cmpid=rss-News