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Originally Posted by FleeceGang
EDit: ^^^ What he said
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You should have kept your original post, I thought you made a couple of good points that I had missed about the NCAA playing a lighter schedule and also having top-level training facilities.
With regards to the schedule, the NCAA plays about half the games the CHL does and almost all are on Fridays and Saturdays. This season, the University of Denver played 44 total games, which was the most in the NCAA. Today, the Memorial Cup Final is Medicine Hat's 90th game of the season (and it would be even more if they hadn't only lost 2 games in the entire WHL playoffs).
Depending on which college a player chooses, there may not be much travel required at all. Almost all of the Hockey East colleges are within a 2 hour drive of Boston. Those players a likely spending less than 10 nights a season in a hotel room.