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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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Correct.
while a CHL player would have to get drafted twice, in terms of the amount of time to achieving UFA status, its still four years.
ending amateur status is something that is different between CHL and NCAA however, so there is less of a incentive not to sign as a CHL player, unless you really don't want to go to Edmonton