[News] NCAA allows CHL players effective Aug 1, 2025

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

I don't think project players are getting much in terms of NIL money.

Remember that college ice hockey is still a very minor sport in the US compared to college basketball and college football.

If they aren't a big name they won't get much. McKenna only got as much as he did because he is being touted as a generational player and Penn State reportedly offered him about three times what the next highest offer from Michigan State.

The London Knights get lots of good players too. Just how the system works.

[MegaErtz]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Nobody is forced to play in the CHL. Just because they get drafted, it doesn't mean they need to report if they don't like how prospective members are selected or invited to join.

I'm talking about players getting drafted into the NHL. It is my belief that all players coming into the league should be able to choose which team they sign with, and shouldn't be beholden to a hockey team for number of years before they gain the freedom to choose.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Also saying the WHL will die is a stretch.

The NCAA doesn't allow players who haven't graduated high school. There will still be a need for a league to develop most of the 16 to 18 year olds.

So did Gavin McKenna graduate this year?

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by Buff

So did Gavin McKenna graduate this year?

https://www.eliteprospects.com/news/...r-ncaa-pioneer

“He’s already completed his high school requirements,” Ritchie said. “We will evaluate what’s best for him next year."

[getbak]

His birthday is in December. I don't know what the enrollment rules are in Yukon, where he's from, but in Alberta, it's common for 17 year-olds with late birthdays to graduate high school and start post-secondary before their 18th birthday.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by MegaErtz

I'm talking about players getting drafted into the NHL. It is my belief that all players coming into the league should be able to choose which team they sign with, and shouldn't be beholden to a hockey team for number of years before they gain the freedom to choose.

That’s a good way for Canada to lose 5 teams.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by getbak

His birthday is in December. I don't know what the enrollment rules are in Yukon, where he's from, but in Alberta, it's common for 17 year-olds with late birthdays to graduate high school and start post-secondary before their 18th birthday.

I can attest to that

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by getbak

His birthday is in December. I don't know what the enrollment rules are in Yukon, where he's from, but in Alberta, it's common for 17 year-olds with late birthdays to graduate high school and start post-secondary before their 18th birthday.

Grad is even more disappointing when you don’t get a wrist band.

[MegaErtz]

Originally Posted by Knut

That’s a good way for Canada to lose 5 teams.

If the only way those five teams can survive is through forced labour, then they don't deserve to survive. Canadian teams haven't won a Stanley Cup in over thirty-two years now. At what point will we stop kidding ourselves into thinking our hockey teams can compete with the Americans? Any Canadian that wants to win a Stanley Cup has to move down there to make it happen.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Forced labor is such a hilarious hyperbole.

[MegaErtz]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Forced labor is such a hilarious hyperbole.

What would you call it? An 18 year old kid gets "drafted" to a hockey team and is forced to play for them or else not get paid, right?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by MegaErtz

What would you call it? An 18 year old kid gets "drafted" to a hockey team and is forced to play for them or else not get paid, right?

Not right.
They can go choose to play in a different league.
They can go choose to make money in a different profession.

They are not being forced to do anything.

[MegaErtz]

If they want to play in the NHL though, they are forced to play for the team that drafted them, correct? They don't have the freedom to choose their employer like every other worker in Canada and the USA?

[Sylvanfan]

I don't understand why people give the intentionally obtuse troll the time of day.

I think the NBA and NFL don't exactly allow 18 year olds to freely pick where they want to work.

[Jiri Hrdina]

To be an NHL player they have to be a member of the NHLPA.
The NHLPA has agreed to conditions through a standard collective bargaining process. So he can choose to be a player in the NHL, which means he must be a member of the PA and adhere to those. Or he can choose to ply his trade elsewhere.
None of that is forced labor.

I may have interest in a job in Edmonton. I can't accuse the company of "forcing me to work in Edmonton" because I want the job but don't want to be in Edmonton. I can either accept that i must live in Edmonton to have that job, or I can choose to seek other employment.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I also wasn't aware that every other worker in Canada has the freedom to "choose their employer".

[fotze2]

WHL is forced employment though since there is no pay.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by fotze2

WHL is forced employment though since there is no pay.

They can play in Europe to get paid, like Matthews did. They aren’t forced to play W.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I also wasn't aware that every other worker in Canada has the freedom to "choose their employer".

Personally I would have become a child slave myself if I knew they got monthly income, their post-secondary full covered for every year they were a slave, and the opportunity to make millions of dollars.

[flamesfan6]

Originally Posted by fotze2

WHL is forced employment though since there is no pay.

No one is forcing these players to play in the whl, if the person doesn't want to play for the team or in the WHL they don't have to join the league or play. They know they aren't getting paid.