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Originally Posted by Matty81
It's an interesting question. While NCAA teams have players who are older, I think the talent gap isn't even close, the CHL is much better and deeper as demonstrated by the NHL draft. Cream of the crop from Canada goes CHL and cream of the crop from the States goes NCAA. Not much of a competition for me. If the best CHL team (Halifax) was gearing up to face the best NCAA team (Yale) they'd drop their 15 and 16 year olds and pummel them. I don't think over a 7 game series that would be even close. Some NCAA teams could for sure beat some CHL teams but high end vs high end would be a blowout.
Age evens it out a little but then the NCAA players on average are much less physical, wear those big cage visors and have no fighting - if they had to play a series with CHL rules they'd be well out of their comfort level, if it was NCAA rules maybe they'd have a chance...
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NCAA teams would beat every CHL team (most of the time). They are just older. Its men vs boys. If you placed the teams at the same age the CHL teams would win, but the NCAA teams beat the CIS teams out East most of the time when they play and those teams are all CHL graduates. They'd just overwhelm the 3rd and 4th lines guys.