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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5232687, member: 1969"]
We will soon found out either way. I think the big advantage for any interested junior kid will be that they are a 20 year old freshman.    Sort of like holding a kid back for a few years so they can get in somewhere more easily.

I think it will have a large impact in the first few years, and level off after that, just because of the sheer numbers of players that become eligible.   Even if many are not interested as you suggest, the numbers that become eligible are huge.  [I] [/I]It will be sort of like the double class of basketball players that plugged up the NCAA for a few years after Covid.   You will now have up to 3 age classes of Canadian kids now being eligible for the first time --  18, 19, 20 year olds.   Heck you might even have some elite CIS Kids that are now 21, 22, and 23 looking to transfer into the middle roster of the NCAA.  A kid that played 3 years of junior hockey in Canada, gets 3 years of subsidized education (that is the agreement junior kids get 1 year played, 1 year paid).   He gets to year 4 of the CIS, he has to pay -- maybe I look at the US for that final year of education.

If I was a fringe kid on an any NCAA team I would be afraid of being "Calhouned" - do they do that in hockey.
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