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Originally Posted by Poe969
The journey of making it to the NHL is much like going to school to become a professional of any sorts. There is no guarantee that you'll make it. There are countless examples of people who go to medical school and don't finish for some reason. Or people who go to school for something and graduate only to take a job in another field because there aren't jobs available. Life is full of risks, banking on becoming an NHL player is a much bigger risk than most but people know that.
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The comparison would only be valid if the U of C graduated only two medical students a year, and the other couple hundred students ended up with absolutely nothing to show for their work - no degree of any kind.
Only a tiny fraction of prospective NHLers make it. And the rest are left with virtually nothing to show for their thousands of hours of dedication. And given the enormous opportunity costs, they're actually further behind some schmuck who drifted through high school and college and got a random diploma from Mount Royal College.