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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
But that makes it not the same. CHL players can sign a contract and carry on developing.
NCAA players can't sign if they want to finish school. That forces a choice on them that shouldn't be forced. And the result of that choice, if they choose school, is that there is an unrealistically - and unfairly - short window to sign them while they have free agency dangling in their face.
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If the NCAA player is young enough... he can sign and go play junior. This happens often. The Flames could have signed Jankowski and/or Gaudreau and had them play in the CHL.