Quoting: mhockey91
You are an absolutely clown. Yes CHL draft in the NHL has been declining but it is still the vast majority of where players are selected from and it’s because hockey is becoming more of an international game. Most of the best players in the NHL have all played in the CHL. Hell even Europeans like Kucherov and Drai have came over to play in the CHL because it’s the highest level of talent.
CHL players by default are younger than college players but the skill level is much higher. How on earth could you compare it to high school sports? The best players in the NHL come from the CHL: Crosby, mackinnon, Mcdavid, etc... (I’m not going to name every CHL star because it would take too much time).
You are out to lunch on this one. One of the worst takes I’ve seen on here. Just because the average age of a CHL team is younger doesn’t mean it’s a worst league. It produces by far the highest end talent and it isn’t even close
This is some half baked logic.
Hell some of the best players in the NFL and NBA all came out of private high schools. Hell there are players in like every league that either went to school together or have been playing each other since highschool. So spare me it's not similar.
I just gave you the numbers. They are real numbers. They count the Europe players who came out the CHL. It's 32%. 32% of guys got drafted last year out the CHL. A number that has been in drastic decline the past 5 years. It takes time for those numbers to effect league wide, but it's coming.
You compare that to the NCAA. Which is also getting like 32% of players in the NHL. But they got far fewer teams. They have to use Division 2 and 3 teams to make a "league". Which is why you get schools like Robert Morris.
But everyone knows the real competition there is in the larger Division 1 schools, which is where all the actual good players go and where they get drafted from. And those teams face off often. Which is why you have great rivalries.
So the level of play is concentrated and higher. Which is why you don't see guys putting up absurd 2 ppg averages. Because they aren't running over basically high school kids. This isn't hard to figure out.
The only one out to lunch on this is you. It's not hard to figure this crap out.
You have a diluted talent pool where a hand full of guys are going somewhere at any given time. If you consider they really play 3 years or less. 17,18,19. 28 players, 60 teams. 71 got drafted.
1680 players. 213 drafted over 3 years. You are looking at like 12% of the players being NHL level. And the vast majority of the ones who aren't are no where close to that level.
But you are going to tell me that is high level competition. That's basically 2.5 players on a team. How stiff do you really think that competition is. Not nearly what you make it out to be.
Hell it's not even counting the fact that other sports don't have costs to enter. Like basketball. Cost doesn't prohibit the best talent from playing or people from even playing at all.
Which is a huge increase in talent for other sports.
What you have in the CHL is 1 or 2 good players on a team and then a huge drop off as you get down the list. To the point it's basically looking at some of these D1 power house highschool teams.
It's the same damn thing.
So yeah, you get a hand full of high talent guys, who come in and run over high school kids. It's basically. It's basically D1 highschools playing your average highschool.
Which is why the numbers are absurd.