I think this is good, but I'd rather see something put into place to help the ones who didn't quite make it, or blew their chance at scholarships chasing the dream as teenagers/young adults. Not sure how the NHLPA can do anything in regards to that, but those are the ones who get it the worst IMO.
Life after any semi-decent NHL career is confusing because there's no more strict regime/structure to guide them, but money-wise (for school) and career opportunity-wise, they should probably be ok if they made alright choices. Even just putting a small portion of their signing bonus into a fund should yield them an education, if they want. Players that were late round picks from Jr and toiled in the ECHL/AHL for a while coming out at 24 or 25 with barely a high school education and none of the nice connections from playing in the show have it much worse off IMO.
Things like Steve Montador and Derek Boogaard happen because the NHL doesn't take good enough care of the players while they are playing, not necessarily because it doesn't support them well enough after (which it doesn't, but I don't think providing school for them at 30+ is getting at the root issues).
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