CHL to NCAA Recruiting Megathread

[cinnamoroll]

Baie-Comeau and Cape Breton had a marathon quintuple-overtime game 5 that saw 3 potential game-winning goals overturned- for BaC in 2OT for goaltender interference, for Cape Breton in 3OT for goaltender interference, for BaC in 4OT for missed stoppage. Eventually 1:42 into 5OT, Angelo Fullerton somehow had the energy for what was actually a beautiful goal. Normally marathon game winners are just exhaustion plays, but this was a sweet move. Cape Breton survives the 2nd longest playoff game in QMJHL history and their goaltender gets the 2nd most saves in QMJHL playoff history at 84. When the game ended, it was nearly 1:30 am. Some of the WHL games had already finished before the game went into 4OT. Plenty of people were tuning in, including crews of the teams that had been eliminated hours earlier. There was one Eagle who got a game misconduct in the 1st and by the end of the game he was sitting in the press box with the announcers. The arena DJ's had to break out the retro playlist because they ran out of songs to play. Just an absolutely wild game.

The gamecenter for the game is also hilarious. The website is not dealing with the 5 extra periods of stats very well.

Via Elliotte Friedman on 32 thoughts: notable TOI from this game

BaC:
D Anthony Lavoie 78:07 (their captain)
D Evan Bellamy 69:20
F Matyas Melovsky 60:31
Cape Breton:
D Tomas Lavoie 69:07 (assisted on the GWG)
D Andrew Brown 65:15 (St Lawrence commit)
D Xavier Daigle 64:52
D Brayden Schmitt 63:09

 

[boblav1]

Defensemen Nate Misskey (Victoria - WHL) and Tnias Mathurin (Windsor - OHL) commit to Umass Lowell.

 

[Sparkee]

Providence picks up a USports top defenseman Kale McCallum that played for University of New Brunswick and 4 years of QMJHL before.

https://x.com/MarkDivver/status/1912271904188084601

 

[cinnamoroll]

Big news for the CHL: all teams will now have 3 import spots instead of 2. General thought is that is a reaction to some of the 19/20 year olds expected to before overage year to NCAA. Import players are more likely to have some pro experience before they turn 18, making their NCAA eligibility complicated (need to sit out some games, less years of eligibility, or straight up ineligible). If they want a chance of going pro in North America, this is a lucrative opportunity. Also, just another avenue of talent.

 

[Sparkee]

Big news for the CHL: all teams will now have 3 import spots instead of 2. General thought is that is a reaction to some of the 19/20 year olds expected to before overage year to NCAA. Import players are more likely to have some pro experience before they turn 18, making their NCAA eligibility complicated (need to sit out some games, less years of eligibility, or straight up ineligible). If they want a chance of going pro in North America, this is a lucrative opportunity. Also, just another avenue of talent.

Are US kids considered imports also?

 

[cinnamoroll]

Are US kids considered imports also?

definitely not. it’s non-north america based players. i think if you’ve lived in north america for a certain amount of time you can be counted as being from there even if you were born outside of NA.

up until last year they had a ban on drafting from russia or belarus, but that has been lifted. players who were already drafted beforehand were fine, but they just didn’t want teams to pick from there for a few years.

not every import draft pick will join and sometimes they get drafted in multiple years by different teams. some european players use coming to north america in the CHL as a sort of bait to get their players their NHL ELCs quicker. Sharks 2nd round picks have exercised that option for the past few years. of course that makes them ineligible for NCAA. CHL teams will know which teams the player would be interested in joining via agents and teams, and teams who aren’t on those lists will avoid taking them since it’s such a small time of having their rights and they could just never come if they don’t like the drafted team