As you may be aware for years the NCAA has considered the CHL professional leagues due to the small living stipend teams give players. Now they are counting this junior league as an armature league and skaters who have played in the Canadian major juniors will be eligible for playing including scholarships for U.S. college hockey.
Yeah, I just mean from a purely hockey skills point of view, most of the top rated guys coming out of NCAA right now don’t stay down past their draft year. The only one I can think of right now is Quinn Hughes who stayed for an extra year past his draft year surprising many people who thought he was a lock to come up because he was slated to be a top player even straight away, which he was.