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Originally Posted by moon
I would think that most guys that end up in the NHL that go the college route don't end up spending all that much time in class or focusing on studies.
Not sure they would be that much smarter than the average hockey player.
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I know "Joe Average" players that went both routes. None of them ever made it but in their life after hockey, the differences were blatantly obvious.
The NCAA guys did indeed attend classes, do the work and received a solid education that allowed them to be competent professionals after hockey.
The guys who went the WHL route barely squeaked out a high school education, had it pressed on them that the AHL was the absolute next step which essentially killed their WHL scholarships and now spend their time in entry level labourer type jobs. As guys lower on the depth scale, given the chance to do it all again pretty much all of them would go the NCAA route. Problem is that most of them at decision time thought they were gonna make it and didn't care at all about school. Now they're getting a dose of reality.