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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
This is why the whole AHL/CHL agreement is dumb.
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The AHL/CHL agreement isn't about helping a few exceptional players develop. It's about keeping the CHL as the top league for junior-aged Canadian players instead of having all the good 18- and 19-year-olds routinely yanked into NHL organizations. The NHL always recognized that the CHL is its biggest source of talent, and needs to keep most of that talent beyond draft age to remain viable. The whole purpose of the agreement was for NHL clubs to avoid undermining the CHL.
Now, of course, the CHL is being undermined by the NCAA, which doesn't give a damn about either the CHL or the NHL. We'll see what happens with that.