Re: New age restrictions for NCAA hockey
Junior hockey, even Tier 2, is quite the step even from Minnesota high school hockey. This is something RPI has found, given some of their players are coming directly from HS hockey, while others come from junior leagues. The step up is quite a large one if you're going from HS to college, and juniors gives you that one extra step of higher experience that helps your game. HS players tend to struggle at first.QUOTE]
Not debating that point under the current state of affairs. But that jump would not be so big if hockey was like every other college sport where kids generally come in immediately after high school. Juniors are so much in the fabric of hockey now, that no one seems to consider that college hockey could do quite well without them.