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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Yet the majority of Calgary Puck wanted to fire Treliving when the trade went down.
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Jesus, no. A very vocal minority wanted to fire Treliving.
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
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.
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Seems like a pretty convoluted way to end up on the NCAA path but I guess it's possible. Again, are there any real world examples of this or is it just hypothetical?
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
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.
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I agree with all of this except Fox being an outlier. Fox is in that niche of college players who are good enough to have multiple teams interested in signing him as a UFA. It's been a legitimate option for him for at least the last year or so. The Harvard degree only incentivises it further.
There may only be one or two every year, or every other year even, but it has happened numerous times under the current rules and in all likelihood will happen more in the future.