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Originally Posted by moon
Its documented by the much better and more players the CHL produces. N
Not sure why a few players who switched and may or may not have had a better year with another year of development on a completely different team would change the fact that the best players come from the CHL and the majority of NA players are developed in the CHL.
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This won't be a perfect analogy, but. . . .
The CHL produces more and much better players than the Swedish Elite League, but the SEL is likely the better league on account that you have more physically mature men playing a more advanced systems game. Leaving aside the differences between the European and North American styles of hockey, if a prospect could get first line ice time on a SEL team, it could well accelerate his development compared to playing against kids in the CHL.
My point being that it could well be that the NCAA being populated by more mature athletes with a greater ratio of practice to game time could make up for the lesser number of top flight prospects, evening up if not surpassing the quality of hockey and thus quality of development experience.