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Originally Posted by theslymonkey
But CHL players who don't sign an ELC for either drafted teams would still be UFA after four years. The NCAA player leaves those four years with a degree and basically no money for those years. The CHL player has no degree and a small amount of money for playing Junior hockey. It's really not that different.
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True, but they're ineligible for junior hockey for at least the last year of holding out, so where are they gonna play in that time? Europe? Has any top prospect ever done this?
edit: this also applies to transplant99's reply.