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Jack Berenzweig wrote: > > Presently, many incoming college freshman hockey players have already been > drafted by NHL teams, since the NHL draft age was 18. Under the new NHL > settlement, the draft age has been changed to 19, "with 18 year olds having > the right to elect to be drafted". > > NCAA Rule 12.2.4 states: "An individual loses amateur status in a particular > sport when the individual asks to be placed on the draft list or supplemental > draft list of a professional league in that sport..." An exception to this > rule was enacted in 1994 for the NBA basketball draft, but for no other > sport. > > It therefore appears that an 18 year old hockey player who intends to play > college hockey will not be able to "elect to be drafted" as an 18 year old, > but instead will now have to wait another year to be drafted. > > I wonder if the NHL and the NHLPA had recognized this when they changed the > draft age. > This seems to be a non-issue for college hockey players. Presumably a player is heading to college to at least play for a year, so the player can play college hockey until he gets (potentially) drafted as a nineteen year old and then can decide to stay in college or go to the pros. I can't see any reason why a player headed to college would opt to be drafted as an eighteen year old rather than the new norm. So I don't see any impact at all on college-bound hockey players. The players in the juniors are the ones who will see *some* change but *very* few of them leave juniors at age 18. ***************************************************** ,-******-, * Dave Hendrickson "Robo" [log in to unmask] * *' ## '* * A Hockey Polygamist and Get-A-Lifer * *## ___##___ ##* * GO BROONS!!! Go Red Wings!! Go Leafs! * * ##| ___ \## * * GO UMASS-LOWELL!!! Go Maine!! Go BU! * * | |___) | * * --------------------------------------------------* *######| ___ <######* * Although I can't remember ever having an original * * | |___) | * * thought, and am certainly parroting someone who * * ##|________/## * * actually has a brain, these opinions are mine, * *## ## ##* * not Hewlett-Packard's. * *, ## ,* ***************************************************** '-*******-'