Ontario's Andrew Agozzino signed with the Niagara Ice Dogs. He is the cousin of former Michigan star Mike Cammalleri.
This is also weeks old, but two nice prospects from Manitoba, Colin Phaneuf and goalie Kyle Birch have signed with the Tri-City Americans. Phaneuf had come down to the states earlier this summer to try out for the Tri-City Storm. Birch had taken an unofficial visit to North Dakota last winter.
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Has the NCAA ever thought of playing more games per season?
I am sure players would like go the college route but really feel they need to play more games.
Doubtful that the NCAA will ever increase the number of games. The hockey season is already the longest of any NCAA sport and there are many people that want to shorten the number of games.
The NCAA is producing a record number of top flight NHL players. The model seems to be working.
What would impede the option of having a midweek game?
Classes
Maybe a three game set; Fri, Sat and Sun could work having it every second weekend.
That could be possible depending on teams travel schedules.
Classes are impeded enough for travel for Friday games
(some teams have to leave thursday to fly to road games) they wouldn't extend it into monday too.
What some people don't understand is that for the universities, school is most important, not hockey. If the kids don't get that, oh well.
Record number of top flight NHL players? How many? I think the NCAA has done a very good job of producing more NHL players but record number? The CHL (57 teams) had 96 players drafted in June and NCAA, NTDP, Jr.A, Jr.B and high school (100 plus teams) had 78 players drafted. This does not include European players drafted as 2 to 1 ratio of European players will play in the CHL rather than the NCAA so the numbers are even greater for the CHL. Remember that the NHL is a business. Some non CHL players are drafted not only on ability but if an 18 year old is playing Jr.A and is going the college route the NHL team has potentially 6 years until they have to sign that player. The NHL has 2 years to sign a CHL player but yet the CHL still leads in NHL talent. I remember seeing a slogan in The Hockey News which read " The CHL, THe official supplier of the NHL".
He was implying a record number of college bound players were taken in the first round Einstein. And yes it was a record.
CHL (57) teams - 16 players chosen in the first round. Non CHL (100 plus teams) - 11 players chosen in the first round. And he did day top flight. Record number? Thanks for the Einstein comment.
Genius - The record comment is compared to the number of college/college bound kids in previous years. Not compared to other leagues in this years draft.
I would say that the Einstein comment was meant as sarcasm.
I guess that you just dont get it.
Typical chl guy, you probably dont get alot of things.
Geez this guy just doesn't get. What do you expect from a guy with a GED education.
There is no question that the vast majority of college coaches (if not each one to a man) would want to extend the college season by adding at least ten games.
In public most D-1 coaches will extoll the virtuous of practices to game ratio and off ice training but in private its a much different story. If a 40 game season is optimal (and the majority of college teams don't even play this many games) then why does the NTDP play 70 games a year? Why does the USHL play 60 regular season games? Why do the vast majority of hockey players say that you can never simulate real game experiences in practice and that actually playing games does as much if not more for your development than just practicing?
Obviously the shortened season compared to the CHL (and just about every other league) is a major detriment.
As for the recent entry draft, no question the NCAA should feel good about itself but how many of those "drafted" college players will actually end up playing in the NCAA?
Factor in the number of Europeans drafted who will end up going to the CHL leads to the inescapable conclusion that the CHL still attracts and produces more talent than the NCAA.
Every year it seems that the ndtp gets alot of its players drafted high and they all have college to fall back on or vice versa.
I don't get it huh? So if I were to play for Michigan and the second I left the university I would have a CEO offering me a 6 figure job. Maybe the person/s who did my homework to make sure I was eligible to play could also do my new job.
kind of hard to fall back on your education when you don't have one. most ncaa players leave early to pursue pro hockey.
What? 1 out of every 10 NCAA players leave early. Nice try insecure CHL poster.
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