Every single junior hockey league in the United States and the vast majority of Tier II Canadian leagues exist to get players into the NCAA. The only ones that don't are the Q, the O, and the W and that's because they develop kids for the Show rather than college puck. Whether you choose to agree with that fact or not is up to you, as is thinking that I think I'm the grand authority on hockey. I am not, obviously I am not. But the point of juniors is to advance kids to college. Look at every single junior hockey league website and the thing they promote is college commitments, if you think I'm full of it then look. Every single website parades their commitments around (except for the USACHL, but let's get a fully working website, stats, and regular games before we get that far). Yes, there's kids in juniors who aren't looking to go to college or are killing time until they play low, low level hockey in Europe getting paid 250 Euros per month along with working a second job. But if you have a roster of 23-25 kids like most junior teams (except for the USACHL teams), you can put your bottom dollar all but 1-2 max are clawing to get for the attention of college coaches.
You're right in that not every kid is in juniors to get a scholarship, but not for the reason you think. There's 60 D1 teams with 15-18 scholarships each, and the supply is much bigger than the demand. I'll just leave this article from the NY Times here that explains it since if you think it's from me it's me "assuming":
College Hockey Has a Talent Glut, but Nowhere to Grow Look at the rosters right now of the top 15 D3 teams in the country. Having played against SUNY Geneseo and Utica and watched some of the Wisconsin schools, they traditionally each have a minimum of 2-3 transfers from D1 since and then 3-5 kids originally committed D1 but decommit and choose to go to D3. Once again, check the rosters since I "assume" a lot or just come at me with the lame and equally weird buttclay remark. If you're not on scholarship at D1, and there are a lot of kids in that situation, there's a good number of them that transfer to D3 at a school with a cheaper price tag, closer to home, and more playing time. There's 80 D3 teams that can't offer scholarships, although most do get good financial aid packages. The top ACHA club teams are run like D3 teams and the rosters of competitive, fully funded club teams like Ohio U and U of Illinois are made up exclusively of kids from juniors. Those are the facts. Look it up if you don't believe me, or think I'm projecting myself as site authority.
And you can go assuming all you want, that's kind of the point of HFBoards. There's people on here thinking Saskatoon will get a seat at the NHL table, which is enough to be declared innocent by reason of insanity at a trial in the province of Saskatchewan haha. You can do it, but unless you want people to take it with a grain of salt you back it up with something. But you might have lost that ability to sway people a couple of pages back in this thread.