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Originally Posted by FAN
...I'm not really sure how useful and relevant it is to argue hypotheticals that will simply never happen. Of course, there's a chance that the USHL will someday match the CHL in quality, but the NCAA isn't going to allow players who haven't graduated from high school to go to college and play on college teams.
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Of course not. But the point is relevant in that it demonstrates
why most of the top players graduate from the CHL than the NCAA. It has much less to do with any supposed discrepancy between these Leagues' ability to develop players, and much more to do with circumstances. In short, I don't think this counts as an argument in favour of the supremacy of the CHL's training programs.
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Originally Posted by FAN
...As soon as a teenager plays a single exhibition game for a CHL team that teeanager is no longer eligible for the NCAA. So of course there isn't a top-five draft pick coming out of the CHL who opted to spend +3 years in college at the expense of one more year of Junior or a NHL roster spot. It's an impossibility, unless you're referring to Canadian colleges and universities.
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This is something of which I was unaware, but I think it actually helps to demonstrate my point, which is simply this: The NCAA is NOT an an inferior development program to the CHL; it only appears that way because the talent-pool available to the NCAA is alot smaller than for the CHL.
Anyways, with respect to the topic of discussion, I think that any concerns about how Jankowski performs relative to the perceived level of competition in the NCAA are irrelevant, and in the end, I expect that we will agree that the NCAA was the best choice for his development.