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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
Agreed, it is the same amount of time for everyone. But for an NCAA player it is 4 years of highly competitive and scouted hockey. For a CHL player it is 2 years of competitive hockey (3 if a team will take them as an overager) followed by 1-2 years in no man's land.
Also agreed. Being able to play in a developmental league while signed to an NHL contract is a huge incentive for these players to sign with the team that originally drafted them.
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Well, so long as the kid hasn't signed with an agent or taken money, he could sign with an NCAA team those 2 years as i understand it.
For American kids, the university sports route is different, IMO, playing for your favorite NCAA team can be alluring in and of itself...
Harvard, and all the Ivies are a different animal; not only are the education standards higher, and not "relaxed for athletes", Ivies do not give out athletic scholarships. They give out academic and financial hardship scholarships based on merit and need respectively.
I think Fox's motivations are a bit of an outlier as a result...he's more than happy to finish out his Harvard degree unless the NHL opportunity is something that is too hard to turn down.