Bob,
First of all congratulations on your son making the team.
Secondly, like you said this is a game put on by the CJAHL and Central Scouting. When looking at the players on each of the rosters, yes, there are not any 'A' grade players as deemed by CSB, however, over 20 are deemed as 'B' grade.
Eight top level players in NCAA (as observed by the CSB preliminary list), who played Junior A one year ago would have been eligible for this game (Street, Matsumoto, Danis-Pepin, Kennedy, Swystun, Dekanich, Marcuzzi, and Sucharski), thus showing how the CJAHL is still developing top-level talent. And that's not even including someone like Toews, who spurned the CJAHL by going the way of the U.S. High School system to get a scholarship to North Dakota for this year, or Gryba, who is one of the top defensemen in the USHL after taking Hockey Canada to court so that he wouldn't have to play in the SJHL.
I believe that this is just a bad year for the CJAHL to begin this event. However, this is not an indicator that the level of players is going downhill. Rather, it can serve as a means for recruiting players to Junior A.
God Bless Canada:
I am surprised that two players from the SJ were not even given a sniff and that is Taylor Watt from Melfort and Kyle Kvisle from Notre Dame.