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NCAA may be better style hockey, only due to age and better coaching strategy. The CHL has better pure raw talent and more top end prospects hand down.

Mashley93 wroteCOLONNCAA may be better style hockey, only due to age and better coaching strategy. The CHL has better pure raw talent and more top end prospects hand down.

This topic came up in the dressing room last night, which is full of Major Midget, Junior A (AJHL, SJHL, KIJHL, BCHL) CIS, WHL & European club players... their was 100% agreement that NCAA hockey is way better then CHL, and they also agreed that many junior A players are way way more skilled then the guys who make the WHL, and a lot of it is for scholarship reasons, but also because the Major-Juniors select a lot based on size and the ever elusive 'potential', and is also easier to get TOI as an elite youngster as there is a better chance that you either greatly increase the media attention the club gets, or your their until 20/21 whereas junior A loses its really good youngsters to NCAA @ 17/18.


Dominating NCAA at the same age is simply harder, they don't give away TOI, and they require a little more then just being a hockey player.


PS- SFU is beginning its first full year in the NCAA. That's the first non-american (also first Canadian) school to be accepted into the NCAA. Their hockey team is a jumbled mess right now, but I think getting a group organized & funded for the Div2/3 hockey would be awesome.... and actually a way to start of a career in hockey!

Not really sure how an NCAA player can make the claim that they are stronger than the WHL and vice versa if they've never actually played in that league...