WreckItRask
Registered User
What a strange thread.
The CHL is clearly the better developmental route for players, it is not even close. The NCAA meanwhile is best for marginal players. The CHL features overall much better coaching - coaches employing full pro systems play versus run and gun scatter-shot NCAA play. The CHL employs a pro style schedule that prepares players for the grind of professional hockey.
Note the increasing numbers of US players choosing CHL over college.
Note of late the growing number of players giving up college commitments after they've been drafted; this is because their NHL team usually strongly advises them to play in the CHL... because they are better prepared there.
I have no problem admitting that the CHL produces far more NHL players than the NCAA does, and because of that, should certainly be considered the better development path for kids that have a serious shot of playing in the NHL.
But don't marginalize the NCAA with nonsense the bolded. You can't look at NHL rosters right now without seeing a fair amount of NCAA talent on each of the 30. Saying stuff like the bolded simply makes you look like a CHL fanboy rather than someone that holds an objective opinion based in fact. The stats, by and large, support the argument that the CHL is far more prolific at producing NHL players than the NCAA...no need to denigrate the NCAA as a haven for marginal players that couldn't hack it in the CHL.